Reflections on Freedom of Speech And the First Amendment - Couverture rigide

Anastaplo, George

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0813124247 ISBN 13 : 9780813124247

Editeur : The University Press of Kentucky, 2007

Synopsis

The guarantee of free speech enshrined in the U.S. Bill of Rights draws upon two millennia of Western thought about the value and necessity of free inquiry. Acclaimed legal scholar George Anastaplo traces the philosophical development of the idea of free inquiry from Plato's Apology to Socrates to John Milton's Areopagitica. He describes how these seminal texts and others by such diverse thinkers as St. Paul, Thomas More, and John Stuart Mill influenced the formation and the earliest applications of the First Amendment. Anastaplo also focuses on the critical free speech implications of a dozen Supreme Court cases and shows how First Amendment interpretations have evolved in response to modern events. Reflections on Freedom of Speech and the First Amendment grounds its vision of America's most basic freedoms in the intellectual traditions of Western political philosophy, providing crucial insight into the legal challenges of the future through the lens of the past.

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À propos de l'auteur

George Anastaplo, professor of law at Loyola University in Chicago and lecturer in the liberal arts at the University of Chicago, is the author of numerous books, including Reflections on Constitutional Law and The Constitutionalist.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University Press of Kentucky
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813124247
• ISBN 13: 9780813124247
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
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