Free Speech and Its Relation to Self-Government - Brossura

Meiklejohn, Alexander

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1616194677 ISBN 13: 9781616194673

Casa editrice: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2014

Riassunto

Originally published: New York: Harper Brothers Publishers, [1948]. xiv, 107 pp. Reprint of the sole edition.

"Dr. Meiklejohn, in a book which greatly needed writing, has thought through anew the foundations and structure of our theory of free speech . . . he rejects all compromise. He reexamines the fundamental principles of Justice Holmes' theory of free speech and finds it wanting because, as he views it, under the Holmes doctrine speech is not free enough. In these few pages, Holmes meets an adversary worthy of him . . . Meiklejohn in his own way writes a prose as piercing as Holmes, and as a foremost American philosopher, the reach of his culture is as great . . . this is the most dangerous assault which the Holmes position has ever borne." -- John P. Frank, Texas Law Review 27:405-412.

Alexander Meiklejohn [1872-1964] was dean of Brown University from 1901-1913, when he became president of Amherst College. In 1923 Meiklejohn moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he set up an experimental college. He was a longtime member of the National Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1945 he was a United States delegate to the charter meeting of UNESCO in London. Lectureships have been named for him at Brown University and at the University of Wisconsin. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1616194677
• ISBN 13: 9781616194673
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 128