The First Amendment - Softcover

Stone, Geoffrey R.; Seidman, Louis M.; Sunstein, Cass R.; Tushnet, Mark V.

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9780735502505: The First Amendment

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Book by Stone, Geoffrey R.

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As a general matter, the Supreme Court has held that laws directly restricting the freedom of individuals to express particular messages because those messages might have harmful or undesirable effects are presumptively—perhaps conclusively—unconstitutional. Indeed, the Court has not upheld a direct restriction on speech because it might persuade readers or listeners to engage in criminal activity since DENNIS V. UNITED STATES (1951); it has not upheld a direct restriction on speech because the ideas expressed might provoke a HOSTILE AUDIENCE response since FEINER V....

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