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"With a historic lens to interpret modern-day issues from hate speech to obscenity, this short and accessible collection provides key classic texts to help illuminate free speech and the First Amendment, as part of the new Penguin Liberty series"--
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"Defending the First: Commentary on First Amendment Issues and Cases provides a collection of new perspectives on the First Amendment in legal and mass communication contexts. Editor Joseph Russomanno brings together a roster of major figures who have participated in the shaping of First Amendment law over the past 40 years. The contributors to this volume - all of whom have litigated cases before the U.S. Supreme Court - tell about their experiences...
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Provides both historical information and 21st century topics in First Amendment issues. Volume One addresses the subject through the lens of past decisions and precedents, updated to include controversies between new social media and civil liberties. Volume Two examines the current state of First Amendment rights, addressing the changes in interpretations of the First Amendment by the Roberts Court as well as hot-button issues such as Occupy Movements...
10) Must we defend Nazis?: why the First Amendment should not protect hate speech and White supremacy
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"Swirling in the midst of the resurgence of neo-Nazi demonstrations, hate speech, and acts of domestic terrorism are uncomfortable questions about the limits of free speech. The United States stands apart from many other countries in that citizens have the power to say virtually anything without legal repercussions. But, in the case of white supremacy, does the First Amendment demand that we defend Nazis? In Must We Defend Nazis?, legal experts Richard...
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Librarians, educators, students, and parents along with publishers, booksellers, writers, and readers interested in the current state of literary censorship in America, especially in our libraries and schools, will find this volume indispensable. This new edition of Banned Books by noted First Amendment advocate Robert P. Doyle details incidents of book bannings from 387 B.C. to 2014. This guide provides a framework for understanding censorship and...
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"The Supreme Court has unanimously held that Jackson Pollock's paintings, Arnold Schöenberg's music, and Lewis Carroll's poem 'Jabberwocky' are 'unquestionably shielded' by the First Amendment. Nonrepresentational art, instrumental music, and nonsense: all receive constitutional coverage under an amendment protecting 'the freedom of speech, ' even though none involves what we typically think of as speech-- the use of words to convey meaning. As a...
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"Thomas J. Curry argues that our understanding of the First Amendment has reached a point of deep crisis. Historical scholarship dealing with the background of the amendment is at an impasse, and judicial interpretation is in a state of disarray. Curry traces much of the current difficulty to the largely unexamined assumption on the part of judges and scholars that the amendment created a right - the right to free exercise of religion - and that the...
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"From the longtime New York Times reporter, best-selling author, and Pulitzer Prize winner-- an expansive, timely assessment of the state of free speech in America. David Shipler's recent best seller, The Working Poor, cemented his place among our most trenchant social commentators. Now, he turns his keen, illuminating focus to another endangered American ideal: freedom of speech. Through selected accounts of First Amendment invocation and infringement,...
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This updated edition of this title provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of the history, theory, law, and comparative analysis of American religious liberty from the earliest colonial period through the most recent Supreme Court cases. The authors present balanced discussions of controversial issues, including the funding of religious schools and charities and displaying religious symbols on government property. Three chapters new to...
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"Robert Ross addresses a fascinating and unresolved constitutional question: why did political parties emerge so quickly after the framers designed the Constitution to prevent them? The text of the Constitution is silent on this question. Most scholars of the subject have taken that silence to be a hostile one, arguing that the adoption of the two-party system was a significant break from a long history of antiparty sentiments and institutional design...
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"A lively and controversial overview by the nation's most celebrated First Amendment lawyer of the unique protections for freedom of speech in America. The right of Americans to voice their beliefs without government approval or oversight is protected under what may well be the most honored and least understood addendum to the U.S. Constitution--the First Amendment. Floyd Abrams, a noted lawyer and award-winning legal scholar specializing in First...
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