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Freedom of Speech: Words are not Deeds

Freedom of Speech: Words are not Deeds

Bracken, Harry

Hardcover

Series: Primary Documents in American History

General Law

ISBN10: 027594719X
ISBN13: 9780275947194
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Feb 23 1994
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This work provides a philosophical framework within which the free speech clause of the Constitution's First Amendment may be understood. While much has been written on the First Amendment, this work is unique in offering an historically based thesis illuminating a point virtually ignored in the literature--the absolutist quality of the free speech clause and the philosophical dualism (words/deeds) on which it is based. Given the increasingly powerful forces favoring group rights in order to generate laws which would silence offensive speech, this book provides a radical challenge to the frameworks within which many such contemporary arguments are cast. It also reminds putative censors of the very special role free speech plays in any democratic community which aims to be self-governing.

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