A comprehensive guide to effective participation in the public debate about our most indispensable right: freedom of expression. Encouraging readers to think critically about freedom of speech and expression and the diverse critical perspectives that challenge the existing state of the law, this text provides a comprehensive analysis of the historical and legal contexts of the First Amendment, from its early foundations all the way to censorship on the Internet. Throughout the book, authors Douglas M.
Fraleigh and Joseph S. The text provides students with the opportunity to read significant excerpts of landmark decisions and to think critically about the issues and controversies raised in these cases. In the context of freedom of speech, obscenity comprises expression that appeals to the prurient erotic interest.
The question of whether such speech should be protected by the First Amendment was highly controversial in the second half of the twentieth century, and continues to be so to this day. Obscene speech has been characterized as having low value and no worth in the marketplace of ideas.
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Go to my saved videos. All search filters on the page have been cleared. Your search has been saved. Summary Contents Subject index A comprehensive guide to effective participation in the public debate about our most indispensable right: freedom of expression Encouraging readers to think critically about freedom of speech and expression and the diverse critical perspectives that challenge the existing state of the law, this text provides a comprehensive analysis of the historical and legal contexts of the First Amendment, from its early foundations all the way to censorship on the Internet.
