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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... documents , since , as Ze- chariah Chafee recalled in 1956 , neither the United States nor most other countries required them : Until less than forty years ago this right [ freedom of movement ] was completely enjoyed by American ...
... , Mass Communication , UNESCO §c / 2 , p . 6 , UNESCO Documents 1945-1946 . 3. Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Au- ditory Materials of an Educational , Scientific , and Cultural Censored Screens 117.
... documents , was seeking to re- strain the publication of " information dealing with the most destructive weapon in the history of mankind , information of sufficient destructive potential to nullify the right to free speech and to ...
Contents
The McCarranWalter Act and | 13 |
Federal | 53 |
The Foreign Agents | 85 |
Copyright | |
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