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Civil peace and the quest for truth : the First Amendment freedoms in political philosophy and American constitutionalism / Murray Dry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dry, Murray.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freedom of religion--United States.
- Freedom of religion.
- Civil rights.
- Philosophy.
- United States.
- Freedom of speech--United States.
- Freedom of speech.
- Civil rights--United States--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- x, 309 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2004]
- Contents:
- 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 postfounding debate on Freedom of Speech : 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-297) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0739107461
- 0739109316
- OCLC:
- 55078832
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