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The Freedom not to speak

Title
The Freedom not to speak / Haig Bosmajian.
Author
Bosmajian, Haig A.
Publication
New York : New York University Press, [1999], ©1999.

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v, 241 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Haig Bosmajian traces the history of the freedom not to speak from the Middle Ages and Inquisition to the Salem witchcraft trials and on to the twentieth century and the House Committee on Un-American Activities. His history addresses the eighteenth-century Revolutionary War and demands for expressions of loyalty, the Civil War and Reconstruction loyalty oaths, and the expulsion of Jehovah's Witnesses from schools for refusing to salute the flag.
Subject
  • Freedom of speech > United States > History
  • Silence (Law) > United States > History
  • Confession (Law) > United States > History
  • Self-incrimination > United States > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-231) and index.
Contents
1. Heresy, the Inquisition, and Coerced Speech -- 2. Coerced Speech in Early America -- 3. "I Do Solemnly Swear ..." in Mid-Twentieth-Century America -- 4. From "I Pledge Allegiance ..." to "Are You a Member of ...?" -- 5. Coerced Speech and Un-American Activities Committees -- 6. A Freedom Not to Speak.
ISBN
0814712975 (cloth : alk paper)
LCCN
98033383
OCLC
ocm40180325
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries