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Discourses of freedom of speech : from the enactment of the Bill of Rights to the Sedition Act of 1918 / Juhani Rudanko

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Rudanko, Martti Juhani
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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vii, 201 pages ; 23 cm
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Contents
Introduction -- Informal fallacies in two procedural debates on the Bill of Rights in the summer of 1789 -- The decision of August 13, 1789 -- Divisions of freedom of speech : debates of November 1794 -- Freedom of speech under threat : the Sedition Act of 1798 -- Contesting and defeating the Sedition Act of 1798 -- "(T)his most unnecessary, unjust, and disgraceful war" : attacks on the Madison Administration in federalist newspapers during the War of 1812 -- Woodrow Wilson and the threat to freedom of speech -- Concluding observations.
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9781137030597 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1137030593 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-197) and index.
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