Freedom of Speech: Words are not Deeds

by Harry M. Bracken

This work provides a philosophical framework within which the free speech clause of the Constitution's First Amendment may be understood. While much has been written on the First Amendment, this work is unique in offering an historically based thesis illuminating a point virtually ignored in the literature--the absolutist quality of the free speech clause and the philosophical dualism (words/deeds) on which it is based. Given the increasingly powerful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027594719X
• ISBN13: 9780275947194
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"