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Boden Lecture: The Past’S Lessons For Today: Can Common-Carrier Principles Make For A Better Internet?, James B. Speta Jun 2023

Boden Lecture: The Past’S Lessons For Today: Can Common-Carrier Principles Make For A Better Internet?, James B. Speta

Marquette Law Review

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Warren/Burger Courts Exalted “Free” Expression Over Other American Values, Louis W. Hensler Iii Mar 2023

Warren/Burger Courts Exalted “Free” Expression Over Other American Values, Louis W. Hensler Iii

Marquette Law Review

Anglo-American defamation law started with a simple condemnation of the sin of evil speaking. Eventually, this value condemning harmful speech was accommodated to the value of speaking the truth, even hurtful truth. A third value of fostering responsible self-government was injected into American defamation law at and around the time of the American Revolution. This value makes it especially important for citizens to freely speak even hurtful truth about their government.