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"English philosopher John Stuart Mill's understanding of the freedom of speech has been increasingly adopted over the last century into the US Supreme Court's interpretation of the First Amendment, beginning with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s use of an analogy that is now known as the 'marketplace of ideas'"--
List of contents
Introduction: Mill's On Liberty and the U.S. Supreme Court
1. Absolute Freedom: Mill's Free Speech Philosophy and the HarmPrinciple
2. Preventing Substantive Evils: The Supreme Court on SpeechThrough World War I
3. The Marketplace of Ideas: Holmes and Brandeis, the GreatDissenters
4. Preferred Freedom: The Court Drifts Toward Mill on Speech andPressFor a Time
5. No Law Means No Law: The Court Retrenches But Black andDouglas Carry On
6. Imminent Lawless Action: The Latter Warren Court MovesToward Mill on Free Speech
7. No Such Thing as a False Idea: The Burger Court HoldsRelatively Steady on Mill
8. A Bedrock Principle: Brennan Leads the Rehnquist Court Closerto Mill
9. Special Protection: The Roberts Court's First AmendmentEmbrace of Mill
Conclusions
About the author
Eric T. Kasper is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where he serves as Director of the Menard Center for Constitutional Studies. He has authored several books on the US Constitution.
Troy A. Kozma is Professor of Philosophy and Academic Chair at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire - Barron County. He is the coauthor, with Eric T. Kasper, of
Machiavelli Goes to the Movies.
