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Author : Patrick Garry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 1351494341

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Since ratification of the First Amendment in the late eighteenth century, there has been a sea change in American life. When the amendment was ratified, individuals were almost completely free of unwanted speech; but today they are besieged by it. Indeed, the First Amendment has, for all practical purposes, been commandeered by the media to justify intrusions of offensive speech into private life. In its application, the First Amendment has become one-sided. Even though America is virtually drowning in speech, the First Amendment only applies to the speaker's delivery of speech. Left out of consideration is the one participant in the communications process who is the most vulnerable and least protected--the helpless recipient of offensive speech. In Rediscovering a Lost Freedom, Patrick Garry addresses what he sees as the most pressing speech problem of the twenty-first century: an often irresponsible media using the First Amendment as a shield behind which to hide its socially corrosive speech. To Garry, the First Amendment should protect the communicative process as a whole. And for this process to be free and open, listeners should have as much right to be free from unwanted speech as speakers do of not being thrown in jail for uttering unpopular ideas. Rediscovering a Lost Freedom seeks to modernize the First Amendment. With other constitutional rights, changed circumstances have prompted changes in the law. Restrictions on political advertising seek to combat the perceived influences of big money; the Second Amendment right to bear arms, due to the prevalence of violence in America, has been curtailed; and the Equal Protection clause has been altered to permit affirmative action programs aimed at certain racial and ethnic groups. But when it comes to the flood of violent and vulgar media speech, there has been no change in First Amendment doctrines. This work proposes a government-facilitated private right to censor. Redisco

Author : Patrick M. Garry
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780765803221

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Since ratification of the First Amendment in the late eighteenth century, there has been a sea change in American life. When the amendment was ratified, individuals were almost completely free of unwanted speech; but today they are besieged by it. Indeed, the First Amendment has, for all practical purposes, been commandeered by the media to justify intrusions of offensive speech into private life. In its application, the First Amendment has become one-sided. Even though America is virtually drowning in speech, the First Amendment only applies to the speaker's delivery of speech. Left out of consideration is the one participant in the communications process who is the most vulnerable and least protected--the helpless recipient of offensive speech. In Rediscovering a Lost Freedom, Patrick Garry addresses what he sees as the most pressing speech problem of the twenty-first century: an often irresponsible media using the First Amendment as a shield behind which to hide its socially corrosive speech. To Garry, the First Amendment should protect the communicative process as a whole. And for this process to be free and open, listeners should have as much right to be free from unwanted speech as speakers do of not being thrown in jail for uttering unpopular ideas. Rediscovering a Lost Freedom seeks to modernize the First Amendment. With other constitutional rights, changed circumstances have prompted changes in the law. Restrictions on political advertising seek to combat the perceived influences of big money; the Second Amendment right to bear arms, due to the prevalence of violence in America, has been curtailed; and the Equal Protection clause has been altered to permit affirmative action programs aimed at certain racial and ethnic groups. But when it comes to the flood of violent and vulgar media speech, there has been no change in First Amendment doctrines. This work proposes a government-facilitated private right to censor. Rediscovering a Lost Freedom will be of interest to students of American law, history, and the U.S. Constitution.

Author : David N. Mayer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Liberty of contract
ISBN : 9781935308386

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Examines the history of the liberty of contract and shows how this right has been continuously diminished by court decisions and by our country's growing regulatory and welfare state.

Author : George H. Nash
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 27,75 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0817912363

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Herbert Hoover's "magnum opus"—at last published nearly fifty years after its completion—offers a revisionist reexamination of World War II and its cold war aftermath and a sweeping indictment of the "lost statesmanship" of Franklin Roosevelt. Hoover offers his frank evaluation of Roosevelt's foreign policies before Pearl Harbor and policies during the war, as well as an examination of the war's consequences, including the expansion of the Soviet empire at war's end and the eruption of the cold war against the Communists.

Author : Douglas Simpson
Publisher : Winepress Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781606151211

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An examination of contaminated hearts, political world views, and the decline of a once free nation.“For anyone who believes, as I do, that religious faith must be involved in the affairs of government, this book is a must read. Doug Simpson believes that restoring true American patriotism begins with “re-instilling honor back into politics.” In this fascinating, bitingly honest, and highly readable “insider” story of modern politics the moral temptations and conflicts are frankly examined from a Biblical perspective.” —Rev. Peter Marshall – co-author of The Light and the Glory.Looking for America is an examination of the troubling myths and fables that shape our political worldviews as Americans. It is a challenge to each of us to look into our own hearts and discover what motivates our political ideology. In doing so, we might rediscover the liberty we've lost and reclaim it for our posterity.

Author : Julie Ann Price
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 16,92 MB
Release : 2017-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781547049110

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How much freedom have you lost? Do you realize that everyday you have a chance to exercise your freedom muscles? Most people give up their everyday freedoms and don't even notice it. Learn how to break free of society's rules and reclaim lost freedom. This journal will guide you through freedom exercises so that you can explore and reclaim your freedom. Now is the time - don't let another day go by in chains.

Author : Matthew Spalding
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1497636477

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The Essential Guide to Rolling Back the Progressive Assault and Putting America Back on Course Many Americans are concerned, frightened, angry. The country, it seems, is on the wrong track. But what is the right course for America? Knowing what we stand against is not the same as knowing what we stand for. Just in time, Matthew Spalding provides the plan for translating angst into proper action in this bestselling book. We Still Hold These Truths offers a bracing analysis of how and why we have lost our bearings as a nation and lays out the strategy to rescue our future from arbitrary and unlimited government.

Author : Robert Lowry MD
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 44,90 MB
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1480841706

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Many Americans today realize that their own government is steadily becoming the greatest danger and threat to their rights, liberties, and future prosperity. In their attempt to right the errant ways of American government, millions of Americans have looked to the Constitution for answers, and yet “what is Constitutional” continues to elude those that we the people elect to political office. In Recovering American Liberty, the authors note the importance of the Constitution, but present an argument that contemporary Americans have lost sight of the ethical principles that the Constitution was conceived and written in, and ratified only in the light of – those being the self-evident truth principles laid out in the Declaration of Independence. Recovering American Liberty explores the Declaration of Independence and each of those self-evident truths. The authors reason that without Americans first becoming a people who once again embrace these principles in the Declaration, then all their efforts to Make America Great Again, will be for not. For, it is only because Americans once honored these principles in their personal lives, that America as a nation, became Great in the first place.