Press and speech under assault [electronic resource] : the early Supreme Court justices and the Sedition Act of 1798 / by Wendell Bird.
Bird, Wendell R., author.
2016
KF9397.A3281798 B57 2016eb
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Press and speech under assault [electronic resource] : the early Supreme Court justices and the Sedition Act of 1798 / by Wendell Bird.
Author
Bird, Wendell R., author.
ISBN
9780190461980 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190461621
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xli, 522 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190461621 doi
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KF9397.A3281798 B57 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
345.730231
Summary
The early Supreme Court justices wrestled with how much press and speech is protected by freedoms of press and speech, before and under the First Amendment, and with whether the Sedition Act of 1798 violated those freedoms. This book discusses the 12 Supreme Court justices before John Marshall, their views of liberties of press and speech, and the Sedition Act prosecutions over which some of them presided. The book begins with the views of the pre-Marshall justices about freedoms of press and speech, before the struggle over the Sedition Act. It finds that their understanding was strikingly more expansive than the narrow definition of Sir William Blackstone, which is usually assumed to have dominated the period. Not one justice of the Supreme Court adopted that narrow definition before 1798, and all expressed strong commitments to those freedoms.
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Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Oxford University, 2012) issued under title: Freedoms of press and speech in the first decade of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The early Supreme Court justices wrestled with how much press and speech is protected by freedoms of press and speech, before and under the First Amendment, and with whether the Sedition Act of 1798 violated those freedoms. This book discusses the 12 Supreme Court justices before John Marshall, their views of liberties of press and speech, and the Sedition Act prosecutions over which some of them presided. The book begins with the views of the pre-Marshall justices about freedoms of press and speech, before the struggle over the Sedition Act. It finds that their understanding was strikingly more expansive than the narrow definition of Sir William Blackstone, which is usually assumed to have dominated the period. Not one justice of the Supreme Court adopted that narrow definition before 1798, and all expressed strong commitments to those freedoms.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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