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speech, freedom of
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......has been broadened to encompass "symbolic speech," which consists of actions that express...the American flag as a protest is protected speech.See G. R. Stone, Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to......
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Bollinger, Lee C.
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......legal scholar with an abiding interest in free speech and First Amendment issues; his books include The Tolerant Society: Freedom of Speech and Extremist Speech in America (1986) and Images of a Free Press (1991)....
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Lincoln, Abraham
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......sincerity, color, and lucidity of speech.In 1842 he married Mary Todd...Kansas-Nebraska Act. In a speech at Springfield, repeated at...abolitionists and the conservative free-staters, and at the Republican...Accepting the nomination (in a speech delivered at Springfield on......
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grammar
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......etymology). Words are minimal free forms, but a word may contain...traditional grammar, parts of speech are defined semantically, i...linguistic morphology, parts of speech are defined according to their...primarily to defining the parts of speech. The biblical commentator Rashi......
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Derrida, Jacques
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......had judged writing to be inferior to speech, not comprehending that the features of writing that supposedly render it inferior to speech are actually essential features of both...author's intentions are subverted by the free play of language, giving rise to many......
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Walachia
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......of Dacia and has retained its latinate speech despite centuries of invasion and foreign...ground that they preserved their Latin speech), it is more than likely that they represent...cost him his throne. A last attempt to free all Romanians from foreign domination was......
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Black, Hugo LaFayette
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......consistently opposing congressional and state violations of free speech and due process. He was also an originalist, relying on a close reading of the Constitution to free the document from years of conservative precedents. See......
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Bryan, William Jennings
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......Having ardently identified himself with the free silver forces in Congress, he became...convention his famous "Cross of Gold" speech so swayed the delegates that his nomination...the campaign was Bryan's proposal for free and unlimited coinage of silver, which......
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Cleveland, Grover
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......bitter and was marked by the "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" speech of a Blaine supporter, which deeply offended Roman Catholics...administration. Though the more radical Democrats saw salvation in free coinage of silver, the independent President sought to improve......
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Douglas, Stephen Arnold
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......Mexico and Utah, whose citizens were left free to act for themselves on all subjects...that would develop between proslavery and Free-State settlers in Kansas. In his report...Northwest in the crisis, but after an eloquent speech at Springfield, he was stricken with typhoid......