The First Amendment, Democracy, and Romance - Hardcover

Shiffrin, Steven H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067441862X ISBN 13: 9780674418622

Verlag: de Gruyter, 2014

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If an organizing symbol makes sense in First Amendment jurisprudence, it is not the image of a content-neutral government, argues Steven Shiffrin, nor is it a town-hall meeting or even a robust marketplace of ideas. If the First Amendment is to have an organizing symbol, let it be an Emersonian symbol: let it be the image of the dissenter.If an organizing symbol makes sense in First Amendment jurisprudence, it is not the image of a content-neutral government, argues Steven Shiffrin, nor is it a town-hall meeting or even a robust marketplace of ideas. If the First Amendment is to have an organizing symbol, let it be an Emersonian symbol: let it be the image of the dissenter.

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'This book offers a perspective on the First Amendment that is both original and important...Shiffrin is dazzling in the range of his reading and the clarity and pertinence of his documentation.'--Vincent Blasi

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: de Gruyter
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 067441862X
• ISBN 13: 9780674418622
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 296
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