About the Author
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Lewis was a columnist for the New York Times op-ed page from 1969 through 2001. Since 1983, Lewis has been the James Madison Visiting Professor at Columbia University. His previous three books are Gideon's Trumpet, which has sold nearly a million copies in over forty years in print; Portrait of a Decade; and Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Book Description
From one of the country's most esteemed experts on the First Amendment and the author of the classic Gideon's Trumpet, an eloquent essay on the importance of freedom of expression.
More than any other people on earth, Americans are free to say and write what they think. The media can air the secrets of the White House, the boardroom, or the bedroom with little fear of punishment or penalty. The reason for this extraordinary freedom is not a superior culture of tolerance, but just fourteen words in our most fundamental legal document: the free expression clauses of the First Amendment to the Constitution.
In Lewis's telling, the story of how the right of free expression evolved along with our nation makes a compelling case for the adaptability of our constitution. Although Americans have gleefully and sometimes outrageously exercised their right to free speech since before the nation's founding, the Supreme Court did not begin to recognize this right until 1919. Freedom of speech and the press as we know it today is surprisingly recent. Anthony Lewis tells us how these rights were created, revealing a story of hard choices, heroic (and some less heroic) judges, and fascinating and eccentric defendants who forced the legal system to come face-to-face with one of America's great founding ideas.
發表於2024-09-29
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他們那個村裏有個廟,廟裏有一座菩薩,它不要求香火供奉,頂禮膜拜,但是村民們日子過的很踏實,跟彆的村的人吵架的時候也特彆理直氣壯,因為他們覺得自己的菩薩是個真貨。 《言論的邊界》是一本關於美國憲法第一修正案的書,它討論瞭關於地球人深感興趣的我們看到的今天的美...
評分“國會不得製定關於下列事項的法律:剝奪言論或齣版自由。” 雖然隻有十幾個字,《第一修正案》如今卻已成為美國思想自由的“守護神”,它的地位並不是依靠開國先賢們的“禦筆硃批”,不是靠法律機器“斧鉞伺候”的嚴格執行,而是通過200多年的司法實踐,通過一個個具體而微的...
評分“國會不得立法……限製言論、齣版自由……”上麵這句話,便是美國憲法第一修正案的核心內容。 從美國《獨立宣言》發錶到1798年因為懼怕法國大革命的影響,國會通過《反煽動叛亂法案》;再由一戰的爆發,國會通過《反間諜法案》,到1927年最高法院大法官寫下瞭被後世認為是有關...
評分“言論自由同一切自由一樣,都是要各人自己去爭取的。言論自由並不因為法律上有規定,或者憲法上有這一條,就可以得來,就是有規定也是沒有用的。言論自由都是自己爭取來的”。 ——鬍適 還記得自己小學時候就成天叫囂著沒有言論自由。等到瞭高中,聽著北京四中的趙利劍老師氣...
評分圖書標籤: 法律 曆史 英文原版 原版 自由及其限製 美國 文化政治學 哲學
慶幸的是美國也曾經像我們一樣不清醒;悲哀的是我們不僅沒有也拒絕學習人傢的經驗教訓。算是我的言論自由/自由主義/憲政的啓濛書目之一。
評分非常好的簡史,被美國詩意的法庭意見驚呆瞭”It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment...””One man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric.”
評分其實想給九分。可以當作第一修正案的hornbook來看,歸納得很好,材料內容的選擇也很準確,但總體來說可能信息量就會犧牲一點。
評分慶幸的是美國也曾經像我們一樣不清醒;悲哀的是我們不僅沒有也拒絕學習人傢的經驗教訓。算是我的言論自由/自由主義/憲政的啓濛書目之一。
評分其實想給九分。可以當作第一修正案的hornbook來看,歸納得很好,材料內容的選擇也很準確,但總體來說可能信息量就會犧牲一點。
Freedom for the Thought That We Hate 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載