Reclaiming the petition clause
Subtitle: seditious libel, "offensive" protest, and the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances
By: Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr
Publisher: Yale University
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300149876
Subjects: Right of Petition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The growing marginalization of dissent and the new seditious libel; title: The growing loss of public space for collective expression of dissent and the failure of contemporary First Amendment doctrine to address this problematic phenomenon; title: Security as a cellophane wrapper : deconstructing the government's security rationale for marginalizing public dissent and dissenters; title: The right of petition in historical perspective and across three societies; title: The jurisprudential contours of the petition clause : an examination of the potential; title: Doctrinal shape and scope of a reclaimed petition clause; title: The Selma-to-Montgomery march as an exemplar of hybrid petitioning.