Repressive Jurisprudence in the Early American Republic: The First Amendment and the Legacy of English Law

ISBN: 9781107613034 出版年：2010 页码：426 Phillip I Blumberg Cambridge University Press

1. Political and jurisprudential worlds in conflict in the new Republic 2. Politics in the new Republic 3. Seditious and criminal libel in the colonies, the states, and the early Republic during the Washington administration 4. Federalist partisan use of seditious libel - statutory and common 5. Seditious and criminal libel during the Jefferson and Madison administrations 1800-16 6. Partisan prosecutions for seditious and criminal libel in the state courts: federalists against republicans, republicans against federalists, and republicans against dissident republicans in struggles for party control 7. Established jurisprudential doctrines (other than seditious and criminal libel) available in the new Republic for suppression of anti-establishment speech 8. Still other nineteenth-century doctrines for suppression of anti-establishment speech: the law of blasphemy and the slave-state anti-abolition statutes 9. Conclusion.