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Discourses of Freedom of Speech

From the Enactment of the Bill of Rights to the Sedition Act of 1918
By:J. Rudanko
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137030597
eText ISBN:9781137030603
Edition:0
Copyright:2012
Format:Page Fidelity

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Freedom of speech is a tradition distinctive to American political culture, and this book focuses on major debates and discourses that shaped this tradition. It sheds fresh light on key Congressional debates in the early American Republic, developing and applying an approach to fallacy theory suitable to the study of political discourse.