First Amendment Stories

First Amendment Stories

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First Amendment Stories goes behind the scenes of landmark, foundational cases involving the fundamental freedoms of speech, religion, and the press. By filling in the details, setting the stage, and presenting fully the context, the text provides readers with a richer understanding of these cases, the people involved in them, and their implications for the future. Considered together, these stories highlight the leading themes and questions that have animated our legal doctrines, and our public conversations, about the conflicts that arise between the power and goals of government, on the one hand, and the liberty and conscience of the individual, on the other.

Introduction. The many paths to neutrality / Richard W. Garnett and Andrew Koppelman

The story of the Sedition act of 1798: "the reign of witches" / Geoffrey R. Stone

Schism, plague, and last rites in the French Quarter: the strange story behind the Supreme Court's first free exercise case / Michael W. McConnell

The story of Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten: Judge Learned Hand, First Amendment prophet / James Weinstein

The story of West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette: the Pledge of Allegiance and the freedom of thought / Vincent Blasi and Seana V. Shiffrin

The Story of Burstyn v. Wilson / Gerard V. Bradley

"Things that are not Caesar's": the story of Kedroff v. St. Nicholas Cathedral / Richard W. Garnett

The story of the school prayer decisions: civil religion under assault / Thomas C. Berg

The story of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan / Mary-Rose Papandrea

The story of Pickering v. Bd. of Education : unconstitutional conditions and public employment / Paul M. Secunda

The story of Welsh v. United States: Elliott Welsh's two religious tests / Andrew Koppelman

Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC: a different perspective on the First Amendment cathedral / Lillian R. BeVier

The nine lives of Buckley v. Valeo / Richard L. Hasen

The story of FCC v. Pacifica Foundation (and its second life) / Adam M. Samaha

The story of Tinker v. Des Moines to Morse v. Frederick: similar stories of different student speech with different results / Scott A. Moss

The stories in Lukumi: of sacrifice and rebirth / Kenneth L. Karst

Of football, "footnote one," and the counter-jurisdictional establishment clause: the story of Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe / Paul Horwitz

The story of the Ten Commandments cases: Van Orden v. Perry and McCreary County v. ACLU / Jesse H. Choper

ISBN

9781599417752

Publication Date

2012

Publisher

Foundation Press/Thomas Reuters

City

New York, NY.

Keywords

First Amendment, freedom religion, freedom of speech, Free Exercise, Establishment Clause, church autonomy

Disciplines

Constitutional Law | First Amendment | Law

Comments

1st edition

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