The Tolerant Society: Freedom of Speech and Extremist Speech in AmericaThe First Amendment provides Americans with a far broader protection of free speech than that available in any other Western democracy, Lee Bollinger notes, and yet other democracies are not seen as significantly less open or more restrictive that the United States. Why do Americans guarantee people the right to advocate the overthrow of the government or advance racist or genocidal ideas? Why, for example, protect the right of neo-Nazis to march in predominantly Jewish Skokie, Illinois? In The Tolerant Society, Bollinger offers a masterful critique of the major theories of freedom of expression, and offers an alternative explanation. Traditional justifications for protecting extremist speech have turned largely on the inherent value of self-expression, maintaining that the About the Author: Lee C. Bollinger is Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. |
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... capacity to exercise self - government in any realistic sense ; then it would be correct to say to us that our commitment to self - government entails a limit on our freedom to engage in such an act of political selfdispossession .
3 The Fortress Model and Its Limits Even though in any particular case the positive benefits from having certain speech may not exceed the injury that protection of it will bring , there may be other reasons for protecting that speech ...
What test is appropriate for deciding upon those limits ? In chapter 2 we began discussing the complex ways in which speech - more accurately , imposing limits on a society's use of legal restrictions against speech - might bring harm ...
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The tolerant society: freedom of speech and extremist speech in America
Crítica de los usuarios - Not Available - Book VerdictBollinger, in this study of the First Amendment, examines some old chest nuts, such as the social and legal implications of the freedom of speech guarantee; the fragile, frequently tense majority rule ... Leer comentario completo
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Introduction | 3 |
The Classical Model and Its Limits | 43 |
The Fortress Model and Its Limits | 76 |
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The Tolerant Society Lee C. Bollinger Dean University of Michigan Law School Vista previa limitada - 1986 |