Revolutionary Sparks: Freedom of Expression in Modern AmericaOxford University Press, 07/05/1992 - 572 من الصفحات The governmental pledge to the American people is found in the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Written more than two hundred years ago, these words now protect a wide range of expressive activity. A broad-gauged discussion of freedom of expression in America, this book begins by studying the period after the Civil War and Reconstruction when new and unsettling ideas appeared with great regularity on the American scene. So many of these ideas were floating around during this period that the nation's leaders often joined forces to repress aberrant notions. In response to such suppression, individuals seeking to better their lives through the expression of new ideas began to demand their rights to speak, write, and associate together to advance their points of view. Blanchard traces this contest for control through the Watergate scandal of the 1970s and the Reagan and early Bush administrations. Blanchard presents a lively discussion of freedom of speech ranging from questions of national security to those of public morality, from loyalty during times of national stress to the right to preach on a public street corner. Including examinations of controversies involving the press, the national government, the Supreme Court, and civil liberties and civil rights concerns, Revolutionary Sparks presents a strong case for the right of Americans to speak their minds and to have access to knowledge necessary for informed self-government. |
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... United States that follows . These two points of view may be best expressed in the words of two U.S. Supreme Court justices who were responding to one another in a 1925 decision that upheld the conviction of a Communist on charges of ...
... United States that follows . These two points of view may be best expressed in the words of two U.S. Supreme Court justices who were responding to one another in a 1925 decision that upheld the conviction of a Communist on charges of ...
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... U.S. Supreme Court . Since the late 1930s , the Court has used the guarantees in the First Amendment to protect the expression of civil rights groups , labor union members , journalists , members of fringe and mainline political groups ...
... U.S. Supreme Court . Since the late 1930s , the Court has used the guarantees in the First Amendment to protect the expression of civil rights groups , labor union members , journalists , members of fringe and mainline political groups ...
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... Courts were deeply rooted in earlier American experiences . But because such earlier ... Supreme Court , with little done so far on freedom of the press in the ... us about the stance of freedom of expression in society at that particular ...
... Courts were deeply rooted in earlier American experiences . But because such earlier ... Supreme Court , with little done so far on freedom of the press in the ... us about the stance of freedom of expression in society at that particular ...
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... court . Debs received a six - month jail sentence . Union leaders appealed the contempt cita- tion to the U.S. Supreme Court , but the justices unanimously upheld the lower court's determination that Debs and his colleagues had violated ...
... court . Debs received a six - month jail sentence . Union leaders appealed the contempt cita- tion to the U.S. Supreme Court , but the justices unanimously upheld the lower court's determination that Debs and his colleagues had violated ...
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... U.S. Supreme Court . Indeed , a unanimous Court had affirmed the right of Congress to bar lottery information from the mail . In that decision the Court noted that " the right to designate what shall be carried [ in the mail ] ...
... U.S. Supreme Court . Indeed , a unanimous Court had affirmed the right of Congress to bar lottery information from the mail . In that decision the Court noted that " the right to designate what shall be carried [ in the mail ] ...
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Freedom of Expression during World War I | 71 |
Freedom of Expression in the 1920s | 110 |
Freedom of Expression in the 1930s | 149 |
Freedom of Expression during World War II | 189 |
Freedom of Expression in the Cold War | 230 |
Freedom of Expression in the Vietnam Era | 279 |
Freedom of Expression in the Early Nixon Years | 334 |
Freedom of Expression in the Age of Watergate | 378 |
Freedom of Expression in an Age of Reaction | 430 |
Epilogue | 489 |
Notes | 493 |
Index | 551 |
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