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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... important , question : Was Congress free to do so ? Six years later , in Aptheker v . Secretary of State , the Court answered the question by saying " It depends . " 34 36 Aptheker involved a congressional statute that made it a ...
... important liberties , the Court employs what it calls " heightened scrutiny , " allowing the gov- ernment to abridge these liberties only to further important interests , and even then only when the means employed are substantially ...
... important case 40 years later . // 133 134 135 In New York Times v . United States , or the Pentagon Papers case , the Court refused to enjoin leading newspapers from publishing an Internal Defense Department study of the Vietnam War ...
Contents
The McCarranWalter Act and | 13 |
Federal | 53 |
The Foreign Agents | 85 |
Copyright | |
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