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Transforming Free Speech; The Ambiguous Legacy Of Civil Libertarianism, Mark Graber
Transforming Free Speech; The Ambiguous Legacy Of Civil Libertarianism, Mark Graber
Mark Graber
Contemporary civil libertarians claim that their works preserve a worthy American tradition of defending free-speech rights dating back to the framing of the First Amendment. Transforming Free Speech challenges the worthiness, and indeed the very existence of one uninterrupted libertarian tradition.
Mark A. Graber asserts that in the past, broader political visions inspired libertarian interpretations of the First Amendment. In reexamining the philosophical and jurisprudential foundations of the defense of expression rights from the Civil War to the present, he exposes the monolithic free-speech tradition as a myth. Instead of one conception of the system of free expression, two emerge: …
Changing The People: Legal Regulation And American Democracy, Tabatha Abu El-Haj
Changing The People: Legal Regulation And American Democracy, Tabatha Abu El-Haj
Tabatha Abu El-Haj
The world in which we live, a world in which law pervades the practice of democratic politics – from advance regulation of public assemblies to detailed rules governing elections – is the product of a particular period of American history. Between 1880 and 1930, states and municipalities increased governmental controls over the full range of nineteenth-century avenues for democratic participation. Prior to this legal transformation, the practice of democratic politics in the United States was less structured by law and more autonomous from formal state institutions than it is today. Exposing this history challenges two core assumptions driving the work …