Civil peace and the quest for truth : the First Amendment freedoms in political philosophy and American constitutionalism /
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- The American founding and the puritan origins
- Religious freedom and freedom of speech in the state constitutions of the confederation period
- The federal constitution and the Bill of Rights
- The postfounding debate on Freedom of Speech : the Sedition Act, the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions and the Virginia report
- Ancient political philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides)
- Seventeenth century political philosophy (Bacon, Hobbes, Milton, Locke, Spinoza)
- Montesquieu (the spirit of the laws)
- Mill (on liberty)
- Seditious libel and fifty years of "clear and present danger" : from Schenck to Brandenburg
- The preferred position doctrine and the categorical approach to freedom of speech : libel
- The increased protection for "fighting words" and other "Offensive speech", obscenity, pornography, and commercial speech
- Money and speech and the public forum (or time, place, and manner) doctrine
- Free exercise clause
- The establishment clause I
- The establishment clause II.