Free speech, "the people's darling privilege" : struggles for freedom of expression in American history / Michael Kent Curtis.
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.
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Durham ; London :
Duke University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Constitutional conflicts.
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Table of 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.