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Sex And Religion: Unholy Bedfellows, Mary-Rose Papandrea Apr 2018

Sex And Religion: Unholy Bedfellows, Mary-Rose Papandrea

Michigan Law Review

A review of Geoffrey R. Stone, Sex and the Constitution: Sex, Religion, and Law from America's Origins to the Twenty-First Century.


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


Strangers On A Train, Peirre N. Leval May 1993

Strangers On A Train, Peirre N. Leval

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment by Anthony Lewis


Transforming Free Speech: The Ambiguous Legacy Of Civil Libertarianism, Gregory P. Magarian May 1992

Transforming Free Speech: The Ambiguous Legacy Of Civil Libertarianism, Gregory P. Magarian

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A Review of Transforming Free Speech: The Ambiguous Legacy of Civil Libertarianism by Mark A. Graber


Protecting The Best Men: An Interpretive History Of The Law Of Libel, Frank G. Zarb May 1987

Protecting The Best Men: An Interpretive History Of The Law Of Libel, Frank G. Zarb

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A Review of Protecting the Best Men: An Interpretive History of the Law of Libel by Norman L. Rosenberg


Constitutional Law - Civil Rights - First Amendment Freedoms-Reformulation Of The Clear And Present Danger Doctrine, Bernard A. Petrie Jan 1952

Constitutional Law - Civil Rights - First Amendment Freedoms-Reformulation Of The Clear And Present Danger Doctrine, Bernard A. Petrie

Michigan Law Review

In July 1948 the apostles of Communism in America were indicted under the conspiracy provisions of the Smith Act of 1940. The tension marking both the trial and the present era has obscured the constitutional problems and policy considerations involved. It is the purpose of this comment to trace the history of this cause celebre, Dennis et al. v. United States, and to examine its effect upon our constitutional notions of the permissible bounds of utterance, primarily by an analysis of the appellate opinions.


Freedom Of Speech And Of The Press In The Federalist Period The Sedition Act, Thomas F. Carroll May 1920

Freedom Of Speech And Of The Press In The Federalist Period The Sedition Act, Thomas F. Carroll

Michigan Law Review

The constitutional problem to which the Espionage Act of 1917 gave rise is almost as old as the Government itself. As early as 1798 the constitutional authority of the Government over speech ,and the press was called into question. The controversy caused by the Sedition Act of that date forms the subject of this paper.