Free Expression in America: A Documentary History

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Free Expression in America: A Documentary History

Book by Sheila Suess Kennedy; Greenwood Press, 1999. 344 pgs.

Copyright Acknowledgments

Series Foreword

Acknowledgments

Document 1: Magna Carta (1215)

Part I: Foundations of Liberty

Document 2: Areopagitica (John Milton, 1644)

Document 3: Cato's Letters (1720)

Part II: The Concept of Free Speech and the Role of Government during the Founding and Early History of the United States

Document 4: Common Sense (Thomas Paine, 1776)

Document 5: The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)

Document 6: The Northwest Ordinance (1787)

Document 7: First Amendment, United States Constitution (1791)

Document 8: The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)

Document 9: The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798)

Document 10: "Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion"

Document 11: Fourteenth Amendment, United States Constitution (1868)

Part III: 1900-1950: A Half- Century of Paternalism

Document 12: "The Regulation of Films" (Nation, 1915)

Document 13: "Birth Control and Public Morals: An Interview with Anthony Comstock" (Mary Alden Hopkins, 1915)

Document 14: The Espionage Act of 1917

Document 15: Schenck v. United States; Baer v. United States (1919)

Document 16: Debs v. United States (1919)

Document 17: Abrams v. United States (1919)

Document 18: "What Is Left of Free Speech" (Gerard C. Henderson, 1919)

Document 19: "Guardian of Liberty: American Civil Liberties Union" (C. 1920)

Document 20: The Scopes Trial (1925)

Document 21: Gitlow v. People of New York (1925)

Document 22: "Freedom of Speech and Its Limitations" (Roger Hoar, 1927)

Document 23: "Dirty Hands: A Federal Customs Officer Looks at Art" (Perry Hobbs, 1930)

Document 24: Lovell v. City of Griffin (1938)

Document 25: "Facts of Life" (Time, 1938)

Document 26: Schneider v. State (Town of Irvington) (1939)

Document 27: Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)

Document 28: Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942)

Document 29: West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)

Document 30: "The Easy Chair" (Bernard DeVoto, 1944)

Part IV: The 1950s: McCarthyism, Racism, and Censorship

Document 31: The Internal Security Act of 1950 (The McCaffan Act)

Document 32: Veto of the Internal Security Act of 1950

Document 33: The Smith Act (1940)

Document 34: Dennis v. United States (1951)

Document 35: Beauharnais v. Illinois (1952)

Document 36: "The Legion and the Library" (Loren P. Beth, 1952)

Document 37: "The Freedom to Read" (1953)

Document 38: Roth v. United States (1957)

Document 39: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson, Attorney General (1958)

Document 40: "Freedom of Association Upheld by High Court" (Christian Century, 1958)

Part V: 1960-1998: Smut, Cyberspace, and Political Correctness

Document 41: "The Playboy Philosophy" (Hugh Hefner, 1963)

Document 42: "An Infinite Number of Monkeys" (Christian Century, 1963)

Document 42: "An Infinite Number of Monkeys" (christian Century, 1963)

Document 44: United States v. O'Brien (1968)

Document 45: Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)

Document 46: Street v. New York (1969)

Document 47: Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969)

Document 48: Miller v. California (1973)

Document 49: Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton, District Attorney (1973)

Document 50: Jenkins v. Georgia (1974)

Document 51: Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971

Document 52: Buckley v. Valeo, Secretary of the United States Senate (1976)

Document 53: Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. (1976)

Document 54: Linmark Associates, Inc. v. Township of Willingboro (1977)

Document 55: Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico, by his next friend Pico (1982)

Document 56: New York v. Ferber (1982)

Document 57: Indianapolis Ordinance on Pornography (1984)

Document 58: American Booksellers Association, Inc. v. William H. Hudnut, III, Mayor, City of Indianapolis (1985)

Document 59: Texas v. Johnson (1989)

Document 60: St. Paul Bias-motivated Crime Ordinance (1990)

Document 61: Irving Rust v. Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services; New York v. Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services (1991)

Document 62: R. A. V. v. City of St. Paul, Minnesota (1992)

Document 63: Wisconsin Statute on Hate Crimes (1989-1990)

Document 64: Wisconsin v. Mitchell (1993)

Document 66: Lamb's Chapel and John Steigerwald v. Center Moriches Union Free School District (1993)

Document 67: Communications Decency Act of 1996

Document 68: Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States v. American Civil Liberties Union (1997)

Document 69: "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" (John Perry Barlow, 1996)

Part VI: The Free Press: A Necessary Irritant

Document 70: "The Day Mencken Broke the Law" (Herbert Asbury, 1951)

Document 71: Near v. Minnesota (1931)

Document 72: "A Letter to the American Society of Newspaper Editors on Free Speech and a Free Press" (Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941)

Document 73: New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)

Document 74: "Libel and the Free Press" (Norman Dorsen, 1964)

Document 75: Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts (1967)

Document 76: The Fairness Doctrine (1966)

Document 77: Red Lion Broadcasting Co, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission (1969)

Document 78: "Fairness Rules of F.C.C. Upheld" (Fred P. Graham, 1969)

Document 79: New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)

Document 80: Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. (1974)

Document 81: Florida Statute on Right of Reply (1973)

Document 82: Miami Herald Publishing Co., Division of Knight Newspapers, Inc. v. Tornillo (1974)

Document 83: Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn (1975)

Document 84: Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation (1978)

Document 85: Landmark Communications, Inc. v. Virginia (1978)

Document 86: Public Broadcasting Act (1967)

Document 87: Federal Communications Commission v. League of Women Voters of California (1984)

Document 88: Reverend Jerry Falwell v. Larry C. Flynt (1986)

Document 89: Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)

Document 90: "The Wrong Lesson" (Tom Wicker, 1988)

Document 91: "Freedom for All: Can Public Records Be Too Public?" (Chris Feola, 1996)

Document 92: "Public Information Is a Public Issue" (Maggie Balough, 1996)

Document 93: Alabama Statute on Loitering and Picketing (1923)

Part VII: The Right to Assemble and Petition: Haranguing, Picketing, and Public Order

Document 94: Thornhill v. Alabama (1940)

Document 95: Marsh v. Alabama (1946)

Document 96: Arthur Terminiello's Speech (1949)

Document 97: Terminiello v. Chicago (1949)

Document 98: Feiner v. New York (1951)

Document 99: Edwards v. South Carolina (1963)

Document 100: Cox v. Louisiana (1965)

Document 101: Gregory v. City of Chicago (1969)

Document 102: Coates v. City of Cincinnati (1971)

Document 103: Smith, President of the Village of Skokie, Illinois v. Collin (1978)

Document 104: Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community, and the First Amendment (Donald Alexander Downs, 1985)

Document 105: "The Speech We Hate" (Progressive, 1992)

Document 106: Paul Schenck and Dwight Saunders v. Pro-Choice Network of Western New York (1997)

Selected Bibliography

Primary Documents in American History and Contemporary Issues

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