Civil peace and the quest for truth
Subtitle: the First Amendment freedoms in political philosophy and American constitutionalism
By: Murray Dry.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lanham [Md.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Freedom of religion -- United States.; Freedom of speech -- United States.; Civil rights -- United States -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-297) and index.
Table of contents: title: The American founding and the puritan origins; title: Religious freedom and freedom of speech in the state constitutions of the confederation period; title: The federal constitution and the Bill of Rights; title: The Sedition Act, the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions and the Virginia report; title: Ancient political philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides); title: Seventeenth century political philosophy (Bacon, Hobbes, Milton, Locke, Spinoza); title: Montesquieu (the spirit of the laws); title: Mill (on liberty); title: Seditious libel and fifty years of "clear and present danger" : from Schenck to Brandenburg; title: The preferred position doctrine and the categorical approach to freedom of speech : libel; title: The increased protection for "fighting words" and other "Offensive speech", obscenity, pornography, and commercial speech; title: Money and speech and the public forum (or time, place, and manner) doctrine; title: Free exercise clause; title: The establishment clause I; title: The establishment clause II.