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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"First Amendment."”.
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The first amendment : a soldier's right?
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The first amendment : a soldier's right?
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Communist Party registration and the First Amendment.
… Communist Party registration vis-a-vis the First Amendment. This constitutional question came before the United States Supreme Court in the Communist Party case, 367 US 1 (1961). An analysis of the provisions of the Internal Security Act of 1950 provides the groundwork necessary for a …
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Citizenship Education and the First Amendment in Public Schools
… cases which dealt with public school students' First Amendment right to speech. Cases were grouped according to the subject matter (underground newspapers, school-sponsored newspapers, textbooks and library books), and the results synthesized in light of specific rights (expression, prior …
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Gaming advertising and the struggle for its First Amendment rights
… gaming advertising. The research begins with the first laws enacted to govern the Louisiana lottery in the late 1890s and their application and development over the following 105 years; The project focuses on the additional Federal and State restrictions implemented in order to govern this growing …
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"Red alert in cyberspace": A battle over First Amendment privileges on the Internet
… dealing with obscene and indecent materials. The first chapter focuses on the inability of the American courts to specifically define what obscenity is and exactly where it falls within the realm of First Amendment protection. In that chapter, I discuss the theoretical backdrop for the entire …
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A Social Psychological Window into How Americans Think About First Amendment Religious Exemption Requests
… of a sincerely held religious belief and deserve First Amendment protection? We answer this question in four studies. Study 1a (N = 99) and Study 1b (N = 151) suggest that Americans across the ideological spectrum hold schemas associating conservative (but not liberal) stances on religion-relevant …
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The Press as Constitutional Litigator: Shaping First Amendment Doctrine in the United States Supreme Court
… the United States Supreme Court to shape the First Amendment doctrine that forms the legal environment in which journalists operate. Although the journalism and legal academies produce a significant body of scholarship analyzing First Amendment doctrine generally, and a growing body of work …
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Rethinking Edwards v. Aguillard?: The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and the Challenge of Intelligent Design
… statute violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution. That decision was the culmination of a series of court battles and cultural conflicts that can be traced back to the famous Scopes Trial. Although many thought, and continue to think, that creationism was dealt a …
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Freedom of speech as a universal value (a comparative approach from international human rights law, the first amendment, and Islamic law)
… regard, American law of freedom of speech (the First Amendment) is analysed in depth. The discussion of these free speech laws reveals that although there is universality of freedom of speech among liberal democracies (which refers to the universal quality or global acceptance of the idea of …
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Religious liberty through the lens of textualism and a Living Constitution : the First Amendment Establishment Clause interpretations of Justices William Brennan, Jr. and Antonin Scalia.
… Scalia guide their interpretations of the First Amendment Establishment Clause. The paper begins by examining Establishment Clause basics, the United States legal system and judicial philosophies, and Establishment Clause jurisprudential history. The elusive search for a standard …
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From the Cold War to the War on Terror: Affecting 1st Amendment Rights in America
… time periods and world events have affected our First Amendment rights in America. The first chapter of my thesis specifically looked into the Cold War era and the various ways the political climate caused First Amendment rights to be abridged. The second chapter of my thesis took this idea one …
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Secrecy in Political Communication: Aspects of an Analytical Framework
Concerns about First Amendment rights and the free press have inspired numerous accounts and studies of political secrecy, usually to reassert the importance of the free flow of information in a democratic society or to detect indicators of deception. Such studies frequently assume that secrec
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Questions about accountability and illegality of virtual rape
… between rape and virtual rape, and applying First Amendment dialogues and arguments to determine its current legality in the United States. Since virtual rape is considered speech or expression, this thesis concludes that it is currently protected by the First Amendment, but that with proper …
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Adding Flesh to Sullivan’s Bones: The Legacy of St. Amant v. Thompson
… law, the development of the principles of the First Amendment, and the influence of Louisiana’s unique history on defamation law in the state. It then examines the circumstances of the 1962 Senate campaign, and the televised statement that led to the lawsuit. It then examines the court …
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