Civil Liberties, Civil Rights - United States, United States Constitutions - Federal & State, U.S. Constitution, Freedom of Religion, Communications & Media Law, Censorship
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Overview
Worrying that the First Amendment has become a "prime agent of [the republic's] destruction," Lowenthal (emeritus, political science, Boston College) proffers an interpretation of the intent of the Constitutional framers that would strip the constitutional provision of much of its currently understood meaning. He argues that, over the years, the Supreme Court has wrongly made individual freedom its "god," wrongly protecting opponents of the social order, protecting producers of obscenity, and limiting the practice of religion. He condemns the intellectual sources of "the new jurisprudence" and offers advice on how to return to the "original meaning" of the First Amendment. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, ORBook Details
Published
January 1, 2009
Publisher
Spence Publishing Company
Pages
332
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781890626471