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The First Amendment Comes Of Age: The Emergence Of Free Speech In Twentieth-Century America, G. Edward White Nov 1996

The First Amendment Comes Of Age: The Emergence Of Free Speech In Twentieth-Century America, G. Edward White

Michigan Law Review

As the number of issues perceived as having First Amendment implications continues to grow, and the coterie of potential beneficiaries of First Amendment protection continues to widen - including not only the traditional oppressed mavericks and despised dissenters but some rich and powerful members from the circles of political and economic orthodoxy - alarms have been sounded. Another period of stocktaking for free speech theory appears to be dawning, and some recent commentators have proposed a retrenchment from the long twentieth- century progression of increasingly speech-protective interpretations of the First Amendment. At the heart of the retrenchment literature lies the …


A Distant Heritage: The Growth Of Free Speech In Early America, Jim Greiner May 1994

A Distant Heritage: The Growth Of Free Speech In Early America, Jim Greiner

Michigan Law Review

A Review of A Distant Heritage: The Growth of Free Speech in Early America by Larry D. Eldridge


Levy Vs. Levy, David A. Anderson Apr 1986

Levy Vs. Levy, David A. Anderson

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Emergence of a Free Press by Leonard W. Levy


Paul & Schwartz: Federal Censorship: Obscenity In The Mail, Harry Kalven Jr. Dec 1962

Paul & Schwartz: Federal Censorship: Obscenity In The Mail, Harry Kalven Jr.

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Federal Censorship: Obscenity in the Mail. By James C. N. Paul and Murray L. Schwartz.


Council And Court: The Handbill Ordinances, 1889-1939, James K. Lindsay Feb 1941

Council And Court: The Handbill Ordinances, 1889-1939, James K. Lindsay

Michigan Law Review

The extent to which a municipality may regulate or prohibit the distribution of handbills and circulars on its streets and from house to house has been thoroughly considered by the courts in the last two years. These recent cases reveal one phase of a battle historically rich and presently important to the American people. It is the thrust of a principle-the right of free speech and press-against the encroachments of municipal governing bodies concerned with the practical problem of keeping their streets clean. The municipal official sees the problem thus: "One of the small but aggravating nuisances which most cities …