Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech.

Public Interest | January 1, 1994| | Copyright

THE WORLD HAS never had a good definition of liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in need of one." What Abraham Lincoln said in 1864 about liberty in general can be said today about liberty or (in the words of the First Amendment) freedom of speech: we are very much in need of a good definition. That wasn't thought to be true a generation ago. Then--it seems like only yesterday--civil libertarians were confident that the Supreme Court had seen the errors of its ways and that there would be no more punishing of "mere speech," that is, ideas or advocacy at some ...

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