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This unique reference has introduced countless students to the field of legal studies by studying Supreme Court issues that directly affect young people. For this third edition, CQ Press worked directly with educators to retain the best features of the previous editions while updating and further refining the material, including a significantly expanded treatment of Equal Protection and discrimination. The book' freshly updated design facilitates student comprehension with new features such as legal definitions in the margin, a “Dissenting Voices” section to provide context for minority judicial opinions, new exercises, and much more.
Freedom of the Student Press: All the News the School Sees Fit to Print
Freedom of the Student Press: All the News the School Sees Fit to Print
“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press….”
“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to choose the latter.”
From our beginnings, we Americans have prided ourselves on spirited and irreverent journalism. Yet, in the eighteenth century, not long after the Bill of Rights was adopted, newspaper editors were sent to jail under the Alien and Sedition Acts for criticizing President John Adams.
In the twentieth century, the Supreme Court ...
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