Title: Civil peace and the quest for truth : the First Amendment freedoms in political philosophy and American constitutionalism /
Authors: Dry, Murray.
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Freedom of religion United States; Freedom of speech United States; Civil rights United States Philosophy.
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.