This book discusses the revolutionary broadening of concepts of freedom of press and freedom of speech in Great Britain and in America in the late eighteenth ce

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Oxford University, 2012) issued under title: Freedoms of press and speech in the first decade of the U.S. Supreme Court.

When members of the founding generation protested against British authority, debated separation, and then ratified the Constitution, they formed the American po

American democracy owes much to the rights guaranteed to individuals in the U.S. Constitution and specifically in its first 10 amendments, known as the Bill of

In a society that prides itself on the most expansive legal guarantees of free speech in history, why are so many individuals and groups frustrated by the Ameri