Nicholas Amhurst

The Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech

• Author(s): Wendell Bird, Wendell R. Bird

• Categories: Law

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2020
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• Publisher: Unknown

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. The conventional view of the history of freedoms of press and speech is that the common law since antiquity defined those freedoms narrowly, and that Sir William Blackstone in 1769, and Lord Chief Justice Mansfield in 1770, faithfully summarized the common law in giving a very narrow definition of those freedoms as mere liberty from prior restraint and not liberty from punishment after something was printed or spoken. This...

Kentish poets, a series of writers, natives of or residents in Kent; with specimens of their compositions, and some account of their lives and writings, by R. Freeman

• Author(s): Rowland Freeman

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1821
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Kentish Poets. A series of writers in English poetry, natives or residents in the county of Kent; with specimens of their compositions and some account of their lives and writings. By R. F.

• Author(s): Rowland FREEMAN

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1821
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Waverley

• Author(s): Walter Scott

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1892
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Waverley Or 'Tis Sixty Years Since

• Author(s): Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1837
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• Publisher: Unknown

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