Thesis
Freedoms of press and speech in the first decade of the U.S. Supreme Court
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This thesis examines the views of freedoms of press and speech held by the twelve earliest justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, as the Sedition Act of 1798 raised their earliest First Amendment questions including the breadth of those freedoms and of seditious libel.
The thesis discusses three aspects of the early justices' views, which add to existing studies. First, the context of those justices' views was growing challenges to the restrictive Blackstone and Mansfield definition of...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2011
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
Item Description
- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:6232
- Deposit date:
- 2012-05-15
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- Copyright holder:
- Bird, W
- Copyright date:
- 2011
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