Civil peace and the quest for truth : the First Amendment freedoms in political philosophy and American constitutionalism
Dry examines the U.S. Supreme Court's treatment of the First Amendment freedoms of religion and speech against the founding of the American Constitution and its philosophical underpinnings.
x, 307 pages ; 23 cm
9780739107461, 9780739109311, 0739107461, 0739109316
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The American founding and the puritan origins
Religious freedom and freedom of speech in the state constitutions of the confederation period
The federal constitution and the Bill of Rights
The Sedition Act, the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions and the Virginia report
Ancient political philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides)
Seventeenth century political philosophy (Bacon, Hobbes, Milton, Locke, Spinoza)
Montesquieu (the spirit of the laws)
Mill (on liberty)
Seditious libel and fifty years of "clear and present danger" : from Schenck to Brandenburg
The preferred position doctrine and the categorical approach to freedom of speech : libel
The increased protection for "fighting words" and other "Offensive speech", obscenity, pornography, and commercial speech
Money and speech and the public forum (or time, place, and manner) doctrine
Free exercise clause
The establishment clause I
The establishment clause II