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What's wrong with the First Amendment?
- Title
- What's wrong with the First Amendment? / Steven H. Shiffrin.
- Author
- Shiffrin, Steven H., 1941-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 17-6310 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- xi, 228 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- What is Wrong with the First Amendment? argues that the US love affair with the First Amendment has mutated into free speech idolatry. Free speech has been placed on so high a pedestal that it is almost automatically privileged over privacy, fair trials, equality and public health, even protecting depictions of animal cruelty and violent video games sold to children. At the same time, dissent is unduly stifled and religious minorities are burdened. The First Amendment benefits the powerful at the expense of the vulnerable. By contrast, other Western democracies provide more reasonable accommodations between free speech and other values though their protections of dissent, and religious minorities are also inadequate. Professor Steven H. Shiffrin argues that US free speech extremism is not the product of broad cultural factors, but rather political ideologies developed after the 1950s. He shows that conservatives and liberals have arrived at similar conclusions for different political reasons.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-223) and index.
- Contents
- Privacy -- Justice -- Race -- Sex -- Violence -- Commerce -- Democracy -- Dissent -- Religion -- How did we get here? -- What next?
- Call Number
- JFE 17-6310
- ISBN
- 9781107160965
- 1107160960
- 9781316613771
- 1316613771
- LCCN
- 2016024220
- OCLC
- 950611548
- Author
- Shiffrin, Steven H., 1941- author.
- Title
- What's wrong with the First Amendment? / Steven H. Shiffrin.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-223) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-6310