First Amendment Under Fire: America's Radicals, Congress, and the Courts

ISBN-13: 9780367736507 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 342 str.

Milton Cantor

Opis

The First Amendment is perhaps the most important - and most debated - amendment in the US Constitution. It establishes freedom of speech, as well as that of religion, the press, peaceable assembly and the right to petition the government.

Spis treści

1. Nationalism and War: The Casualties 2. Post-War Harvest: “Traitors to America” 3. Judicial Tolerance of Intolerance 4. The First Amendment: Crucible Years 5. Freedom of Expression in Flux: The Twenties 6. The Thirties: Evolving toward the First Amendment 7. Stare Decisis: Old Responses to New Crises 8. The Cold War Enters the Courtroom 9. The Fifties: The Left under Assault 10. The Warren Court: The Cloudy Judicial Landscape 11. Red Monday 12. “Exposure Purely for the Sake of Exposure” (Brennan in Barenblatt) 13. Requiem for Precedents

O autorze

Milton Cantor