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Fighting Words : Individuals, Communities, and Liberties of Speech / Kent Greenawalt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (206 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691026008
  • 9781400821679
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.4430973
LOC classification:
  • KF4772 .G738 2001
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter One. Introduction: Free Speech Themes -- Chapter Two. General Principles of Free Speech Adjudication in the United States and Canada -- Chapter Three. Flag Burning -- Chapter Four. Insults, Epithets, and "Hate Speech" -- Chapter Five. Campus Speech Codes and Workplace Harassment -- Chapter Six. Obscenity -- Chapter Seven. Individuals and Communities -- Chapter Eight. Conclusion: General Lessons -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Should "hate speech" be made a criminal offense, or does the First Amendment oblige Americans to permit the use of epithets directed against a person's race, religion, ethnic origin, gender, or sexual preference? Does a campus speech code enhance or degrade democratic values? When the American flag is burned in protest, what rights of free speech are involved? In a lucid and balanced analysis of contemporary court cases dealing with these problems, as well as those of obscenity and workplace harassment, acclaimed First Amendment scholar Kent Greenawalt now addresses a broad general audience of readers interested in the most current free speech issues.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter One. Introduction: Free Speech Themes -- Chapter Two. General Principles of Free Speech Adjudication in the United States and Canada -- Chapter Three. Flag Burning -- Chapter Four. Insults, Epithets, and "Hate Speech" -- Chapter Five. Campus Speech Codes and Workplace Harassment -- Chapter Six. Obscenity -- Chapter Seven. Individuals and Communities -- Chapter Eight. Conclusion: General Lessons -- Notes -- Index

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Should "hate speech" be made a criminal offense, or does the First Amendment oblige Americans to permit the use of epithets directed against a person's race, religion, ethnic origin, gender, or sexual preference? Does a campus speech code enhance or degrade democratic values? When the American flag is burned in protest, what rights of free speech are involved? In a lucid and balanced analysis of contemporary court cases dealing with these problems, as well as those of obscenity and workplace harassment, acclaimed First Amendment scholar Kent Greenawalt now addresses a broad general audience of readers interested in the most current free speech issues.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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