Extreme Speech and Democracy

by James Weinstein and Ivan Hare

Book Overview

Commitment to free speech is a fundamental precept of all liberal democracies. However, democracies can differ significantly when addressing the constitutionality of laws regulating certain kinds of speech. In the United States, for instance, the commitment to free speech under the First Amendment has been held by the Supreme Court to protect the public expression of the most noxious racist ideology and hence to render unconstitutional even narrow...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199601798
• ISBN13: 9780199601790
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"