THE FIRST AMENDMENT IN AN AGE OF PARATROOPERS
From a colloquy entitled "The First Amendment and the Paratroopers' Paradox"
For the closing article from this colloquy, please see The First Amendment In Bold Relief.

Ronald K.L. Collins
Visiting Associate Professor, Catholic University School of Law (1990­ 1991).

David M. Skover
Associate Professor, University of Puget Sound School of Law.


Copyright 1990 by Ronald K. L. Collins and David M. Skover

Originally published in the Texas Law Review, May 1990, Vol. 68, No. 6, pp. 1087 - 1126.

This is the first installment of a much larger work in progress entitled The Death of Discourse.
The next installments, Paratexts and Commerce & Communication, address various points raised in this Article.

We are grateful to a number of our friends and colleagues who provided thoughtful, and sometimes even critical, comments: Suzanne Singer, John Scanlan, Pierre Schlag, Eric Chiappinelli, Steven Pressman, Daniel Barbiero, Linda Hirshman, Chris Rideout, Burt Wechsler, George Anastaplo, H. Jefferson Powell, Jill Ramsfield, Antonia Fondaras, Joe Goffman, and Charles Reich.