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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... Court , cases involving transborder speech frequently raise larger issues related to immigration policy , national ... Court's reticence , then , U.S. Nazis can stage hate marches down the streets of Skokie , Illinois , 31 but Japanese ...
... Court held that while Americans had a First Amendment right to receive information and to hear what the Belgian scholar had to say , 40 this right is not absolute , and in cases involving the admission and exclusion of aliens , it must ...
... Court indicated in an important 1972 case that U.S. citizens have at least some constitutional right to hear what they have to say . This case , Kleindienst v . Mandel , involved Ernest Mandel , a Belgian journalist and a well - known ...
Contents
The McCarranWalter Act and | 13 |
Federal | 53 |
The Foreign Agents | 85 |
Copyright | |
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Taking Liberties: National Barriers to the Free Flow of Ideas Elizabet Hull No preview available - 1990 |