Taking Liberties: National Barriers to the Free Flow of IdeasBloomsbury Academic, 1990 M02 15 - 173 pages A groundbreaking contribution to the literature of constitutional law, Taking Liberties is the first book to explore the ways domestic policies deny U.S. citizens access to international sources of information. Author Elizabeth Hull argues that such policies--which include limiting Americans' right to travel, censoring foreign documentaries, suppressing foreign literature considered politically objectionable, preventing controversial aliens from visiting the country, and restricting international scientific exchange--contravene the Constitution's First Amendment, which was designed to prevent government authorities from suppressing information bearing on public affairs. Hull challenges traditional judicial interpretations of First Amendment protection, asserting that in an era of global problems, constitutional protection must be extended to international sources of information that bear upon public issues. Written with a minimum of legal jargon, the volume is an ideal supplemental text for graduate and undergraduate courses in constitutional law. |
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... Amendment Is an Absolute , " 1961 Supreme Court Review 245 ( 1962 ) ; Thomas Emerson , " Toward a General Theory of the First Amendment , ” 72 Yale Law Journal 877 ( 1963 ) . 4. See Richmond Newspapers , Inc. v . Virginia : The First ...
... Amendment on the one hand ( see below ) , and both the spirit and the letter of the McCarran Act's §27 on the other . 42 The United States and the Soviet Union are both bound by the Helsinki Agreement of 1975 , Basket Three of which ...
... Amendment protection : It is impossible to adopt for aliens a lower degree of First Amendment protection solely in the deportation setting without seriously affecting their First Amendment rights outside that setting . Under a lower ...
Contents
The McCarranWalter Act and | 13 |
Federal | 53 |
The Foreign Agents | 85 |
Copyright | |
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