The Supreme Court and the philosopher : how John Stuart Mill shaped US free speech protections / Eric T. Kasper and Troy A. Kozma.
| Author/creator | Kasper, Eric T. author. |
| Other author | Kozma, Troy A., 1969- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2024. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : Mill's On Liberty and the US Supreme Court -- Absolute Freedom : Mill's Free Speech Philosophy and the Harm Principle -- Preventing Substantive Evils : The Supreme Court on Speech through World War I -- The Marketplace of Ideas : Holmes and Brandeis, the Great Dissenters -- Preferred Freedoms : The Court Drifts toward Mill on Speech and Press . . . For a Time -- No Law Means No Law : The Court Retrenches but Black and Douglas Carry On -- Imminent Lawless Action : The Latter Warren Court Moves toward Mill on Free Speech -- No Such Thing as a False Idea : The Burger Court Holds Relatively Steady on Mill -- A Bedrock Principle : Brennan Leads the Rehnquist Court Closer to Mill -- Special Protection : The Roberts Court's First Amendment Embrace of Mill -- Conclusions. |
| Abstract | "English philosopher John Stuart Mill's understanding of the freedom of speech has been increasingly adopted over the last century into the US Supreme Court's interpretation of the First Amendment, beginning with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s use of an analogy that is now known as the 'marketplace of ideas'"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Kasper, Eric T. Supreme Court and the philosopher Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2024 9781501774522 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2023029732 |
| ISBN | 9781501774515 |
| ISBN | 1501774514 |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
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