Press and Speech Under Assault. The Early Supreme Court Justices, the Sedition Act of 1798, and the Campaign Against Dissent

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. This book discusses the Supreme Court justices before John Marshall and their confrontations with those freedoms. Its conclusions are surprising about their broad understanding of freedoms of press and speech before 1798, and about their split over the constitutionality of the Sedition Act of 1798. The book also summarizes the recognized prosecutions under that law, and then doubles their number by confirming 22 additional prosecutions under the Sedition Act.

Издательство

Oxford University Press

Год

2016

Страниц

565

Язык

английский

ISBN

9780190461621