Reflections on freedom of speech and the First Amendment / George Anastaplo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anastaplo, George, 1925-2014.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of speech--United States--History.

Freedom of speech.

History.

United States.

United States. Constitution--1st Amendment.

Freedom of speech--History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 320 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2007]

Summary:

The guarantee of free speech enshrined in the U.S. Bill of Rights draws upon two millennia of Western thought about the value and necessity of free inquiry. Acclaimed legal scholar George Anastaplo traces the philosophical development of the idea of free inquiry from Plato's Apology of Socrates to John Milton's Areopagitica. He describes how these seminal texts and others by such diverse thinkers as St. Paul, Thomas More, and John Stuart Mill influenced the formation and the earliest applications of the First Amendment. Anastaplo also focuses on the critical free speech implications of a dozen Supreme Court cases and shows how First Amendment interpretations have evolved in response to modern events. Reflections on Freedom of Speech and the First Amendment grounds its vision of America's most basic freedoms in the intellectual traditions of Western political philosophy, providing crucial insight into the legal challenges of the future through the lens of the past.

Contents:

1 Plato's Apology of Socrates 3

2 The Ministry of St. Paul 9

3 Thomas More and Parliamentary Immunity (1521) 14

4 John Milton's Areopagitica (1644) 20

5 William Blackstone, Patrick Henry, and Edmund Burke on Liberty (1765-1790) 26

6 The Declaration of Independence (1776); the Northwest Ordinance (1787) 36

7 Constitutionalism and the Workings of Freedom of Speech 43

8 The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom (1786) 49

9 The Emergence of a National Bill of Rights (1789-1791) 57

10 The Organization of the First Amendment 64

11 The Sedition Act of 1798 71

12 John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1859) 78

13 Freedom of Speech and the Coming of the Civil War 85

1 The Naive Folly of Realists: A Defense of Justice Black (1937-1971) 95

2 Schenck v. United States (1919); Abrams v. United States (1919) 101

3 Debs v. United States (1919); Gitlow v. New York (1925) 108

4 Winston S. Churchill and the Cause of Freedom 116

5 Dennis v. United States (1951); the Rosenberg Case (1950-1953) 123

6 Cohen Y. California (1971); Texas v. Johnson (1989) 133

7 The Pentagon Papers Case (1971) 140

8 Obscenity and the Law 148

9 Private Property and Public Freedom 155

10 Buckley v. Valeo (1976) 162

11 The Regulation of Commercial Speech 170

12 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) 177

13 The Future of the First Amendment? 183

A The Declaration of Independence (1776) 189

B The United States Constitution (1787) 193

C The Amendments to the United States Constitution (1791-1992) 205

D Thomas More, Petition to Henry VIII on Parliamentary Freedom of Speech (1521) 215

E The Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty (1786) 218

F Some Stages of the Religion/Speech/Press/Assembly/Petition Provisions in the First Congress (1789) 221

G The Sedition Act (1798) 224

H The Virginia Resolutions (1798) 226

I Report of a House of Delegates Minority on the Virginia Resolutions (1799) 229

J Thomas Jefferson, the First Inaugural Address (1801) 236

K Schenck v. United States Leaflet (1917) 241

L The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) 246

M George Anastaplo, On the Alcatraz Imprisonment of a Convicted Soviet Spy (1954) 253

N George Anastaplo, An Obscenity-Related Case from Dallas (1989-1990) 269

O Cases and Other Materials Drawn On 300.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-304) and index.

ISBN:

9780813124247

0813124247

9780813191737

0813191734

OCLC:

74353885