CONTEMPORARY FIRST AMENDMENT
ISSUES FREE SPEECH THEORY IN A COMMERCIAL CULTURE, PROFESSOR SKOVER
READING ASSIGNMENTS
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Assignment 1: | Text of the First Amendment - PDF File History of Speech and Press Freedoms - PDF File First Amendment Speech Flowchart - PDF File Outline of First Amendment Doctrines - PDF File |
Assignment 2: | Normative Value Theories for the Freedoms of Speech and Press - PDF File Excerpts from John Milton, Areopagitica - PDF File Excerpts from John Stuart Mill, On Liberty - PDF File Excerpts from Alexander Meiklejohn, Political Freedom - PDF File Martin Redish, "The Value of Free Speech" - PDF File |
Assignment 3: | Ronald Collins & David Skover, On Dissent (2013) |
Assignment 4: | Ronald Collins & David Skover, On Dissent (2013) |
Assignment 5: | Prospectus for Paper or Project #1 due at the beginning of class Steven Shiffrin, What's Wrong with the First Amendment? (2016) Robert Corn-Revere, "Certainty and the Censor's Dilemma" - PDF File |
Assignment 6: | Paper or Project #1 due at the beginning of class Nadine Strossen, HATE: Why We Should Resists It with Free Speech (2018) |
Assignment 7: |
Ronald Collins & David Skover, The Death of Discourse (2005) Foreword to the 3rd edition (2022) - PDF File |
Assignment 8: | Ronald Collins & David Skover, The Death of Discourse (2005) Part II: Commerce & Communication |
Assignment 9: | Prospectus for Paper or Project #2 due at the beginning of class Ronald Collins & David Skover, The Death of Discourse (2005) Part III: Discourse & Intercourse |
Assignment 10: | Paper or Project #2 due at the beginning of class Ronald Collins & David Skover, The Death of Discourse (2005) Epilogue |
Assignment 11: | Ronald Collins & David Skover, Robotica (2018) Prologue |
Assignment 12: |
Ronald Collins & David Skover, Robotica (2018) Part III: The New Norm of Utility |
Assignment 13: |
Class Presentation of Paper or Project #3 |