Press and speech under assault : the early Supreme Court justices, the Sedition Act of 1798, and the campaign against dissent, Wendell Bird

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Press and speech under assault : the early Supreme Court justices, the Sedition Act of 1798, and the campaign against dissent, Wendell Bird

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the early Supreme Court justices, the Sedition Act of 1798, and the campaign against dissent

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Wendell Bird

Instantiates

• Press and speech under assault : the early Supreme Court justices, the Sedition Act of 1798, and the campaign against dissent

Publication

• New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2016

Note

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Oxford University, 2012) issued under title: Freedoms of press and speech in the first decade of the U.S. Supreme Court

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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rdacarrier

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text

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• txt

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Contents

The right to dissent, and the growth of freedoms of press and speech in the eighteenth century -- The crime of seditious libel, and England's evisceration of freedoms of press and speech -- The collision of seditious libel and freedoms of press and speech in America's constitutional period -- The initial Supreme Court justices and their views on freedoms of press and speech -- The successor Supreme Court justices and their views on freedoms of press and speech -- The Sedition Act and the assault on freedoms of press and speech : the sitting Supreme Court justices and the trials -- The Sedition Act and the assault on freedoms of press and speech : the missing half of the Sedition Act cases -- The Sedition Act and the assault on freedoms of press and speech : the remaining Supreme Court justices on the Sedition Act -- The Federalist justices and the Republican critics : historical misconceptions about freedom

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25 cm

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xli, 522 pages

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9780190461621

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2015025447

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rdamedia

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• n

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illustrations, portraits

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.b7320358

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(OCoLC)912508122