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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... asked to testify on the spot , to exactly what he thought , or wrote , or believed , forty years ago . He is then interviewed by a harassed consular official , again on the assumption that a distinguished foreigner ( honored , requested ...
... asked him if he was a Communist , asked him if he had ever been a homosexual , asked him all the [ se ] humiliating things . ... I think this is ... one of the basic flaws of the ideological exclusions . It submits men of good will ...
... asked librarians to be " on the lookout " for anyone who might be working for Soviet intelligence , to note the books and journals they read , and to observe whether they seemed to be recruiting agents for counterintelligence . ” They ...
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 |