Congress Shall Make No Law - The First Amendment, Unprotected Expression, U.s. Supreme Court

Informationen zum Autor David M. O'Brien, Leone Reaves and George W. Spicer Professor at the University of Virginia, is the author of numerous articles and books on the Supreme Court, including Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics, which received the ABA's Silver Gavel Award Klappentext The First Amendment declares that 'Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech , or of the press. . . . ' Yet, in the following 200 years, the Supreme Court has defined certain categories of expression-the obscene, the defamatory, commercial, and fighting words or disruptive expression-as constitutionally unprotected. Noted legal scholar David O'Brien provides a history of each category of unprotected speech and puts into bold relief the larger questions of what kinds of expression should (and should not) receive First Amendment protection. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Acknowledgements Chapter 2 Foreword Chapter 3 Chapter 1: When "No Law" Doesn't Mean "No Law" Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Obscenity, Pornography, and Indecent Expression Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Defamation and Related Harms Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Commercial Speech Chapter 7 Chapter 5: "Fighting Words," Provocative and Disruptive Expression Chapter 8 Chapter 6: Conclusion Chapter 9 Appendices Chapter 10 Unprotected Speech Timeline Chapter 11 Selected Bibliography Chapter 12 Index Chapter 13 About the Author

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• Authors: &apos, David M. brien, O&apos, David O'Brien, David M. O'Brien, David M. O''brien
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2010
• EAN: 9781442205109
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-0510-9
• No. of pages: 150
• Series: Free Expression in America; Free Expression in America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education