First Amendment law in a nutshell
First Amendment law
by Jerome A. Barron, C. Thomas Dienes.
- 3rd ed.
- St. Paul, Minn. : Thomson/West, c2004.
- xxxix, 579 p. ; 19 cm.
- West nutshell series .
- Nutshell series. .
Includes index.
pt. I. Background and methodology. Text, history and theory ; First Amendment methodology -- pt. II. Content-based regulation and low-value speech. Advocacy of illegal conduct ; Dangerous and offensive speech ; Obscenity and indecency ; Defamation, privacy and mental distress ; Commercial speech ; New Catagories? -- pt. III. General approaches. The public forum ; Expressive conduct ; Freedom of association and belief ; The electoral process ; Government sponsored environments ; Freedom of the press -- pt. IV. Freedom of religion. Text, history and theory of the religion clauses ; The Antiestablishment Clause ; The Free Exercise Clause.
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United States. 1st Amendment. Constitution.
Freedom of speech--United States. Freedom of religion--United States.