Democracy, Expertise, and Academic Freedom: A First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State
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A leading American legal scholar offers a surprising account of the incompleteness of prevailing theories of freedom of speech. Robert C. Post shows that the familiar understanding of the First Amendment, which stresses the "marketplace of ideas" and which holds that "everyone is entitled to an opinion," is inadequate to create and preserve the expert knowledge that is necessary for a modern democracy to thrive. For a modern society reliably to...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0300192495
ISBN13:9780300192490
Release Date:April 2013
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.0" x 7.9"
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