The revolution in freedoms of press and speech from Blackstone to the First Amendment and Fox's libel act

This book discusses the revolutionary broadening of concepts of freedom of press and freedom of speech in Great Britain and in America in the late eighteenth century, in the period that produced state declarations of rights and then the First Amendment and Fox's Libel Act

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bird, Wendell R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2020, 2020
Series:Oxford scholarship online / Oxford scholarship online
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Summary:This book discusses the revolutionary broadening of concepts of freedom of press and freedom of speech in Great Britain and in America in the late eighteenth century, in the period that produced state declarations of rights and then the First Amendment and Fox's Libel Act
Physical Description:400 pages
ISBN:9780197509227