Discourses of Freedom of Speech [electronic resource] : From the Enactment of the Bill of Rights to the Sedition Act of 1918 /
Rudanko, J.author.
Freedom of speech is a tradition distinctive to American political culture, and this book focuses on major debates and discourses that shaped this tradition. It sheds fresh light on key Congressional debates in the early American Republic, developing and applying an approach to fallacy theory suitable to the study of political discourse.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- IntroductionInformal Fallacies in Two Procedural Debates on the Bill of Rights in the Summer of 1789The Decision of August 13, 1789Divisions of Freedom of Speech: Debates of November 1794Freedom of Speech under Threat: the Sedition Act of 1798Contesting and Defeating the Sedition Act of 1798'[T]his most unnecessary, unjust, and disgraceful war': Attacks on the Madison Administration in Federalist Newspapers during the War of 1812Woodrow Wilson and the Threat to Freedom of SpeechConcluding ObservationsNotesReferencesIndex.
Freedom of speech is a tradition distinctive to American political culture, and this book focuses on major debates and discourses that shaped this tradition. It sheds fresh light on key Congressional debates in the early American Republic, developing and applying an approach to fallacy theory suitable to the study of political discourse.
United States.
America—History.
Sociolinguistics.
United States—History.
Discourse analysis.
Political science.
History of the Americas.
Sociolinguistics.
US History.
Discourse Analysis.
Political Science.