The revolution in freedoms of press and speech from Blackstone to the First Amendment and Fox's libel act /

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.

Main Author: Bird, Wendell R.,
Other Authors: Oxford Scholarship Online.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 pages).
Series: Oxford scholarship online.
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