Author: Harry Weinberger
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Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Author: New York Public Library. Economic and Public Affairs Division
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 698

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Author: Milton Cantor
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412863643
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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The First Amendment is perhaps the most important—and most debated—amendment in the US Constitution. It establishes freedom of speech, as well as that of religion, the press, peaceable assembly and the right to petition the government. But how has the interpretation of this amendment evolved? Milton Cantor explores America’s political response to the challenges of social unrest and how it shaped the meaning of the First Amendment throughout the twentieth century. This multi-layered study of dissent in the United States from the early 1900s through the 1970s describes how Congress and the law dealt with anarchists, syndicalists, socialists, and militant labor groups, as well as communists and left-of-center liberals. Cantor describes these organizations’ practices, policies, and policy shifts against the troubled background of war and overseas affairs. The volume chronologically explores each new challenge—both events and legislation—for the First Amendment and how the public and branches of government reacted. The meaning of the First Amendment was defined in the crucible of threats to national security. Some perceived threats were wartime events; the First World War instigated awareness of civil liberties, but in those times, security trumped liberty. In the peace that followed, efforts to curtail speech continued to prevail. Cantor analyzes the decades-long divisiveness regarding First Amendment decisions in the Supreme Court, coming down squarely in criticism of those who have argued for greater government control over speech.

Author: Alexander Berkman
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609800060
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Alexander Berkman was a twentieth-century American revolutionary. Like the abolitionist John Brown before him, Berkman was hugely idealistic, ready to go to the furthest extreme of self-sacrifice and violence on behalf of justice and civil rights. He decided to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick after reading in the newspaper that Pinkertons hired by Frick had opened fire on the Homestead strikers, killing men, women, and children. Berkman’s bungled attempt cost him fifteen years in a federal penitentiary. Upon his release, he became an effective agitator against conscription and was again imprisoned and eventually deported to Russia, where he saw at first hand the early days of Bolshevism. Berkman’s writings remain a lasting and impassioned record of intense political transformation. Featuring a new introduction by Howard Zinn, Life of an Anarchist contains Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, Berkman’s account of his years in prison; The Bolshevik Myth, his eyewitness account of the early days of the Russian Revolution; and The ABC of Anarchism, the classic text on the nature of anarchism in the twentieth century. Also included are a selection of letters between Berkman and his lifelong companion Emma Goldman, and a generous sampling from Berkman’s other publications.

Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Vols. 1-3 include section "Condensed reports of selected cases in Louisiana Courts of Appeal."

Author: New York Public Library. Reference Department
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 714

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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1316

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Author: United States. Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 698

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 986

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