Free Speech in an Open Society
by Rodney A. Smolla
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This grand tour of First Amendment law underlines the intimate connection between free expression and democratic values as it leads us through the most treacherous and emotionally charged cases in American jurisprudence. "Intellectually venturesome. . . ."--The New York Times Book ReviewTags
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- The human instinct to censor thrives, as it always will, living in irrepressible conflict with the human instinct to speak. Outrage, self-righteousness, and paranoia feed the maw of censorship. Squelching speech, however, n... (show all)ever reduces society's net paranoia quotient; it simply redirects it, drives it underground, where it festers into more dangerous hysterias. In the words of Justice Brandeis, "Men feared witches and burned women."
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- Politics and Government, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 323.44 — Society, Government, and Culture Political science Civil Rights & Liberties/ Human Rights The state and the individual Liberty
- LCC
- JC591 .S56 — Political Science Political theory Political theory. The state. Theories of the state Purpose, functions, and relations of the state
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- English
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