Reprint of sole edition. Originally published: New York: Harper Brothers Publishers, 1948]. "Dr. Meiklejohn, in a book which greatly needed writing, has thought through anew the foundations and structure of our theory of free speech . . . he rejects all compromise. He reexamines the fundamental principles of Justice Holmes' theory of free speech and finds it wanting because, as he views it, under the Holmes doctrine speech is not free enough. In these few pages, Holmes meets an adversary worthy of him . . . Meiklejohn in his own way writes a prose as piercing as Holmes, and as a foremost...
Reprint of sole edition. Originally published: New York: Harper Brothers Publishers, 1948]. "Dr. Meiklejohn, in a book which greatly needed writing, ...