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| Genre/Form: | History |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Curtis, Michael Kent, 1942- Free speech, "the people's darling privilege". Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2000 (OCoLC)606480642 Online version: Curtis, Michael Kent, 1942- Free speech, "the people's darling privilege". Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2000 (OCoLC)607726296 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Kent Curtis |
| ISBN: | 0822325292 9780822325291 |
| OCLC Number: | 43641418 |
| Description: | x, 520 pages ; 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Constitutional conflicts. |
| Responsibility: | Michael Kent Curtis. |
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"Curtis fills in a missing piece of our social history-the social history of political dissent and of agitative speech during nearly six decades, culminating in the Civil War and the adoption of the three Reconstruction Amendments."-William W. Van Alstyne, Duke University School of Law "Michael Kent Curtis's first book, No State Shall Abridge, was one of the most important and most impressive works of constitutional scholarship of the late twentieth century. This second book is a worthy successor, building on a decade of painstaking scholarship and filled with fascinating tales and keen insights. Until Curtis came along, many of the most important chapters in the story of American free expression had been all but lost. Now, thanks to Curtis, they are found-and what a find it is! No law professor I know handles constitutional history better than Curtis-he is a national treasure."-Akhil Reed Amar, author of The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction "This book is a major contribution to scholarship on the history of free speech in the United States from 1800 through the Civil War."-David Rabban, University of Texas School of Law "This engrossing book recounts a series of remarkable stories about our country's hard-fought battles for freedom of expression. Taken together, these often-inspiring tales show how our current reverence for free speech evolved and emerged painfully through Americans' bitter and sometimes bloody experience. Free Speech: 'The People's Darling Privilege' is a must-read for everyone who cares about the First Amendment."-Nadine Strossen, President, American Civil Liberties Union and Professor, New York Law School Read more...
