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Free Speech in Its Forgotten Years, 1870-1920

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Free Speech in its Forgotten Years, 1870-1920 - Rabban, David M.
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Most American historians and legal scholars incorrectly assume that controversies and litigation about free speech began abruptly during World War I. However, there was substantial debate about free speech issues between the Civil War and World War I. Important free speech controversies, often involving the activities of sex reformers and labor unions, preceded the Espionage Act of 1917. Scores of legal cases presented free speech issues to Justices Holmes and Brandeis. A significant organization, the Free Speech League, ...

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Free Speech in its Forgotten Years, 1870-1920 1999, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521655378

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Free Speech in its Forgotten Years, 1870-1920 1997, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521620130

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