The First Amendment and the Legacy of English Law
by
Phillip I. Blumberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
This volume seeks to explain how American society, which had been capable of noble aspirations such as those in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, was capable of adopting one of the most widely deplored statutes of our history, the Sedition Act of 1798. It examines how the political...