Reflections on Freedom of Speech and the First Amendment

by George Anastaplo

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The guarantee of free speech enshrined in the U.S. Bill of Rights draws upon two millennia of Western thought about the value and necessity of free inquiry. Acclaimed legal scholar George Anastaplo traces the philosophical development of the idea of free inquiry from Plato's Apology to Socrates to John Milton's Areopagitica. He describes how these seminal texts and others by such diverse thinkers as St. Paul, Thomas More, and John Stuart Mill influenced...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0813191734

ISBN13:9780813191737

Release Date:February 2007

Publisher:University Press of Kentucky

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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