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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... noted that in the recent case of Zemel v . Rusk " the Supreme Court had affirmed the pres- ident's right to prohibit U.S. citizens from traveling to Cuba - which " is certainly no less serious constitutionally than preventing that ...
... noted that when he talked about greater freedom of expression in the Soviet Union , South Africa , and South Korea , officials from these and many other countries immediately re- sponded with , " What about your own ideological ...
... noted in a 1943 case : The right of a state to regulate , for example , a public utility may well include ... power to impose all of the restrictions which a legislature may have a “ rational basis " for adopting . But freedom of speech ...
Contents
The McCarranWalter Act and | 13 |
Federal | 53 |
The Foreign Agents | 85 |
Copyright | |
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