Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment
by Anthony Lewis (Author)
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Publication Date: January 2008

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The First Amendment’s injunction that Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press seems cut and dried, but its application has had a vexed history, according to this lucid legal history, Lewis’s first book in 15 years (after Make No Law and Gideon’s Trumpet). Some suppressions of free speech passed constitutional muster in their day: the 1798 Sedition Act… ( read more )

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