Civil Peace and the Quest for Truth: The First Amendment Freedoms in Political Philosophy and American ConstitutionalismDry examines the U.S. Supreme Court's treatment of the First Amendment freedoms of religion and speech against the founding of the American Constitution and its philosophical underpinnings. |
Contents
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE AMERICAN FOUNDING | 15 |
The American Founding and the Puritan Origins | 19 |
Religious Freedom and Freedom of Speech in the State Constitutions of the Confederation Period | 32 |
The Federal Constitution and the Bill of Rights | 52 |
The Postfounding Debate on Freedom of Speech The Sedition Act the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and the Virginia Report | 65 |
THE FIRST AMENDMENT FREEDOMS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY | 79 |
Ancient Political Philosophy Plato Aristotle and Thucydides | 81 |
SeventeenthCentury Political Philosophy Bacon Hobbes Milton Locke and Spinoza | 95 |
The Preferred Position Doctrine and the Categorical Approach to Freedom of Speech Libel | 165 |
The Increased Protection for Fighting Words and Other Offensive Speech Obscenity Pornography and Commercial Speech | 178 |
Money and Speech and the Public Forum or Time Place and Manner Doctrine | 201 |
Religious Freedom and the Constitution | 219 |
The Free Exercise Clause | 221 |
The Establishment Clause I | 242 |
The Establishment Clause II | 266 |
Conclusion | 283 |
Montesquieus Constitution of Liberty The Spirit of the Laws | 120 |
John Stuart Mills On Liberty | 133 |
THE SUPREME COURTS TREATMENT OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM | 145 |
Freedom of Speech | 147 |
Seditious Libel and Fifty Years of Clear and Present Danger From Schenck to Brandenburg | 149 |
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