No Liberty for License: The Forgotten Logic of the First Amendment

Emeritus David Lowenthal

ISBN 10: 0965320847 / ISBN 13: 9780965320849

Published by Spence Publishing Company, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: No Liberty for License: The Forgotten Logic of the First Amendment
• Publisher: Spence Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0965320847
• ISBN 13: 9780965320849
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In an original and iconoclastic reassessment of the First Amendment, a distinguished political philosopher reaches unorthodox yet compelling conclusions about the place of free speech and religion in the American constitutional order. Revisiting the internal logic of the Amendment's language and the legal culture from which it emerged, Professor David Lowenthal attacks the legacy of Holmes and Brandeis, whose judicial heirs have twisted the First Amendment into a vehicle for degrading and destabilizing the republic it was meant to strengthen and preserve. Professor Lowenthal demonstrates that the framers of the Constitution and Bill of Rights had an understanding of freedom quite different from that to which we have grown accustomed. They saw that freedom without limits degenerates into mere license, itself a threat to freedom, and devised the First Amendment to guarantee the political freedoms requisite for republican self-government. Lowenthal then examines the modern Supreme Court's treatment of revolutionary groups, obscenity, and church-state questions, showing how in each area the Court has been led astray by its fixation on individual rights at the expense of the common good and the health of the republic.

About the Author

David Lowenthal, a native of Brooklyn, New York, has taught political science at Boston College since 1966. He holds undergraduate degrees from Brooklyn College and New York University and a Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research, where he studied under Leo Strauss. Professor Lowenthal is also the author of a forthcoming book from Rowman & Littlefield on the moral and political thought of Shakespeare. He lives in Princeton, Massachusetts.