附註: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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
摘要: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. , Modern ideas about the protection of free speech in the United States did not originate in twentieth-century Supreme Court cases, as many have thought. Free Speech, "The People's Darling Privilege" refutes this misconception by examining popular struggles for free speech that stretch back through American history. Michael Kent Curtis focuses on struggles in which ordinary and extraordinary people, men and women, black and white, demanded and fought for freedom of speech during the period from 1791 - when the Bill of Rights and its First Amendment bound only the federal government to protect free expression - to 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment sought to extend this mandate to the states.
