Congress Shall Make No Law: The First Amendment, Unprotected Expression, and the U.S. Supreme Court

by David M. O'Brien

Book Overview

The First Amendment declares that 'Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. . . . ' Yet, in the following two hundred years, Congress and the states have sought repeatedly to curb these freedoms. The Supreme Court of the United States in turn gradually expanded First Amendment protection for freedom of expression but also defined certain categories of expression_obscenity, defamation, commercial speech, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442205105
• ISBN13: 9781442205109
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"