The First Amendment, Democracy, and Romance

Steven H. Shiffrin

ISBN 10: 067441862X / ISBN 13: 9780674418622

Published by Harvard University Press, 1990

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'This book offers a perspective on the First Amendment that is both original and important.Shiffrin is dazzling in the range of his reading and the clarity and pertinence of his documentation.'--Vincent Blasi.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The First Amendment, Democracy, and Romance
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067441862X
• ISBN 13: 9780674418622
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 246W x 175H x 22D millimeters 246 millimeters width by 175 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 685 grams

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Synopsis

If an organizing symbol makes sense in First Amendment jurisprudence, it is not the image of a content-neutral government, argues Steven Shiffrin, nor is it a town-hall meeting or even a robust marketplace of ideas. If the First Amendment is to have an organizing symbol, let it be an Emersonian symbol: let it be the image of the dissenter.If an organizing symbol makes sense in First Amendment jurisprudence, it is not the image of a content-neutral government, argues Steven Shiffrin, nor is it a town-hall meeting or even a robust marketplace of ideas. If the First Amendment is to have an organizing symbol, let it be an Emersonian symbol: let it be the image of the dissenter.

Review

"[Surprises] are in store for readers of [this book]. The biggest one is that [Shiffrin's] First Amendment exemplars aren't such history-making United States Supreme Court justices as Oliver Wendell Holmes and William J. Brennan but Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson."--Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times

"[Shiffrin] masterfully makes the best case for an enduring constitutional and cultural love affair with the First Amendment."--Ronald Collins, ABA Journal