| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Free speech, "the people's darling privilege"/ Michael Kent Curtis. |
| Reminder of title: |
struggles for freedom of expression in American history / |
| Author: |
Curtis, Michael Kent, |
| Published: |
Durham, N.C. :Duke University Press, : 2000., |
| Description: |
x, 520 p. ;25 cm. |
| Notes: |
Includes index. |
| Series: |
Constitutional conflicts |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Freedom of speech - History. - United States - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=107401An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0822381060 (electronic bk.) |