The revolution in freedoms of press and speech : from Blackstone to the First Amendment and Fox's libel act / Wendell Bird.
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TextSeries: Oxford scholarship onlinePublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (400 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780197509227
- Freedom of the press -- Great Britain
- Freedom of the press -- United States
- Freedom of speech -- Great Britain
- Freedom of speech -- United States
- Freedom of expression -- Great Britain
- Freedom of expression -- United States
- United States. Constitution. 1st Amendment
- Blackstone, William, 1723-1780
- Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793
- Law
- Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law
- 342.410853 23
- K3253 .B57 2020
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book discusses the revolutionary broadening of concepts of freedom of press and freedom of speech in Great Britain and in America in the late eighteenth century, in the period that produced state declarations of rights and then the First Amendment and Fox's Libel Act.
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