The Tolerant Society : Freedom of Speech and Extremist Speech in America
This book examines the consequences of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. While Americans benefit from its broad protection of freedom of speech, they also suffer from the extremes which result from interpretation of the same amendment
1 online resource (306 pages)
9780198021049, 0198021046
437173422
Contents; Introduction; 1 Enslaved to Freedom?; 2 The Classical Model and Its Limits; 3 The Fortress Model and Its Limits; 4 The Quest for the Tolerant Mind; 5 The Internal Dialectic of Tolerance; 6 Drawing Lines and the Virtues of Ambiguity; 7 Searching for the Right Voice; 8 An Agenda for the General Tolerance Theory; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W