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Scrambling For Protection: The New Media And The First Amendment (Paperback Ed.), Patrick Garry
Scrambling For Protection: The New Media And The First Amendment (Paperback Ed.), Patrick Garry
Patrick M. Garry
In Scrambling for Protection, Patrick Garry asserts that such dramatic developments in electronic communications will radically change the way society communicates. Already, computer networks and bulletin boards are creating, in essence, electronic editorial pages on which people can register their viewpoints. Indeed, the new and increasingly interactive media promise to more significantly involve the public in the process of social communication. This concept of change lies at the heart of Scrambling for Protection. Garry offers models and guidelines for constitutionally redefining the press and asserts that, as both the press and the First Amendment move away from an apparently exclusive …
Principle, History, And Power: The Limits Of The First Amendment Religion Clauses, Stephen M. Feldman
Principle, History, And Power: The Limits Of The First Amendment Religion Clauses, Stephen M. Feldman
Stephen M. Feldman
This article addresses whether the religion clauses of the U.S. Constitution prohibit the injection of religious values into political debate. I argue that Christianity hegemonically controls American society and culturally oppresses outgroup religions, particularly the prototypical minority religion of Judaism. I critically analyze how the constitutional principle of separation of church and state contributes to the current orientation of power within American society. I approach the problem of Christian social power from three perspectives: symbolic power, structural power, and the relationship between symbolic and structural power.