Congress Shall Make No Law: The First Amendment, Unprotected Expression, and the U.S. Supreme Court

by David M. O'Brien

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The First Amendment declares that 'Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. . . . ' Yet, in the following 200 years, the Supreme Court has defined certain categories of expression-the obscene, the defamatory, commercial, and fighting words or disruptive expression-as constitutionally unprotected. Noted legal scholar David O'Brien provides a history of each category of unprotected speech and puts into bold...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1442205105

ISBN13:9781442205109

Release Date:September 2010

Publisher:Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury

Length:150 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"

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Censorship Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences

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