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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Virtually every opinion written in the case contains somewhere within it such a personal statement by the judges . These denouncements are unqualified . They unambiguously proclaim the Nazi ideology a collection of monstrous errors .
As a personal statement , on the other hand , the book is remarkable . Once one wades through the phrases slung right and left about how free speech protection in the case was necessary for the search for truth , for democracy , and so ...
( In the race area we have a similar recognition of the broad harmfulness of tolerance of speech and of the potential for symbolic statement as certain radio and television productions like “ Amos ' n ' Andy , ” children's books like ...
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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 |