Free speech, "the people's darling privilege" : struggles for freedom of expression in American history / Michael Kent Curtis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curtis, Michael Kent, 1942-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Constitutional conflicts.

Constitutional conflicts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of speech--United States--History.

Freedom of speech.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (534 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Considers key struggles for free speech in early U.S. history, most of which were settled outside the judicial arena by legislatures following public opinion.

Contents:

English and Colonial background

Debate over the Sedition Act of 1798

Sedition in the courts : enforcement and its aftermath

Sedition : reflections and transitions

Declaration, the Constitution, slavery, and abolition

Shall abolitionists be silenced?

Congress confronts the abolitionists : the Post Office and petitions

Demand for northern legal action against abolitionists

Legal theories of suppression and the defense of free speech

Elijah Lovejoy : mobs, free speech, and the privileges of American citizens

After Lovejoy : transformations

Free speech battle over Helper's impending crisis

Daniel Worth : the struggle for free speech in North Carolina on the eve of the Civil War

Struggle for free speech in the Civil War : Lincoln and Vallandigham

Free speech tradition confronts the war power

New birth of freedom? the Fourteenth Amendment and the First Amendment

Where are they now? a very quick review of suppression theories in the twentieth century.

Participant:

Unidentified performer on synthesizer.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613023629

9781283023627

1283023628

9780822381068

0822381060

OCLC:

245538666