Discourses of freedom of speech [electronic resource] : from the enactment of the Bill of Rights to the Sedition Act of 1918 / Juhani Rudanko.

Freedom of speech is a tradition distinctive to American political culture, and this book focuses on the major debates and discourses that shaped this tradition. Today the American Bill of Rights, with its famous First Amendment, is generally taken for granted, but when James Madison proposed a Bill...

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