Title: The Freedom not to speak
First published: 1999
Description: Haig Bosmajian traces the history of the freedom not to speak from the Middle Ages and Inquisition to the Salem witchcraft trials and on to the twentieth century and the House Committee on Un-American Activities. His history addresses the eighteenth-century Revolutionary War and demands for expressions of loyalty, the Civil War and Reconstruction loyalty oaths, and the expulsion of Jehovah's Witnesses from schools for refusing to salute the flag.
Subjects: Confession (Law), Self-incrimination, Freedom of speech, Silence (Law), History, Redefreiheit, Histoire, Liberte dexpression, Liberte de conscience, Schweigen, Silence (droit), Aveux (droit), United states, social conditions, 1980-
Places: United States
LC classification: KF4772 .B67 1999