Free speech in its forgotten years

David M. Rabban

Most American historians and legal scholars incorrectly assume that controversies and litigation about free speech began abruptly during World War I. However, there was substantial debate about free speech issues between the Civil War and World War I. Important free speech controversies, often involving the activities of sex reformers and labor unions, preceded the Espionage Act of 1917. Scores of legal cases presented free speech issues to Justices Holmes and Brandeis. A significant organization, the Free Speech League, became a principled defender of free expression two decades before the establishment of the ACLU in 1920. World War I produced a major transformation in American liberalism. Progressives who had viewed constitutional rights as barriers to needed social reforms came to appreciate the value of political dissent during its wartime repression. They subsequently misrepresented the prewar judicial hostility to free speech claims and obscured prior libertarian defenses of free speech based on commitments to individual autonomy.

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[目次]

  • Introduction
  • 1. The lost tradition of libertarian radicalism
  • 2. The IWW free speech fights
  • 3. The courts and free speech
  • 4. Legal scholarship
  • 5. Free speech in progressive social thought
  • 6. The Espionage Act
  • 7. World War I and the creation of the modern Civil Liberties Movement
  • 8. Holmes, Brandeis, and the judicial transformation of the First Amendment after World War I
  • 9. Epilogue: current parallels to prewar progressive thought.

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書名 Free speech in its forgotten years
著作者等 Rabban, David M.
Tomlins, Christopher L.
シリーズ名 Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 1998, c1997
ページ数 xi, 404 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 0521655374
NCID BA51941032
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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