The Free and Open Press : : The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty / / Robert W. T. Martin.
The current, heated debates over hate speech and pornography were preceded by the equally contentious debates over the "free and open press" in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thus far little scholarly attention has been focused on the development of the concept of political pres...
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| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- Introduction
- 1 The English Inheritance: From Milton to Cato
- 2 The Coming of the Crisis
- 3 The Pre-Revolutionary Crisis
- 4 The Making of the First Amendment
- 5 The Emergence of Modern Democratic Press Liberty
- Conclusion: The Foundation of American Press Liberty
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author