Free Expression and Democracy in America

Acknowledgments


1 Democracy and Free Expression       

Dimensions of Free Expression
The English and Colonial Background  

2 Republican Democracy from the Revolution through the Civil War     

Establishing the Parameters: The Revolution to the Framing       
Republican Democracy in American Society     
Judicial Review under Republican Democracy  
Changing Interpretations of Republican Democracy      

3 Free Expression in the Early Years    

The Revolutionary Period         
The Framing and the Bill of Rights        

4 The Sedition Act Controversy           

Politics, Expression, and Republican Democracy in the 1790s   
The Alien and Sedition Acts     
Consequences of the Sedition Act Prosecutions

5 Free Expression in the Nineteenth Century to 1865

In the Wake of the Sedition Act Controversy   
The Traditions of Dissent and Suppression       
Assessing the Status of Free Expression           

6 Republican Democracy from Reconstruction through 1920    

Exclusion         
Strains on Republican Democracy        
The Same, yet Different           
Populism and Progressivism     
Judicial Review in a Time of Stress       

7 Free Expression, American Society, and the Supreme Court  

Immorality, Expression, and Libertarian Theory
Protecting the Government: Libel and Contempt           
Liberty and Labor        
The Supreme Court and Free Expression: The Early Cases       

8 Free Expression during the World War I Era 

World War I and Suppression 
The Supreme Court and the War         

9 Transition to Pluralist Democracy      

The 1920s       
The Modern Intellect, the Great Depression, and the Doubting of Democracy   
The New Deal and Pluralist Democracy           
The World in Crisis and the Development of Pluralist Democratic Theory          
Struggles to Fulfill the Promise of Pluralist Democratic Theory   

10 Pluralist Democracy and Judicial Review     

Crisis and Change
The Puzzle of Pluralist Democratic Judicial Review       

11 Free Expression, Pluralist Democracy, and the Supreme Court        

Free-Expression Doctrine and Theory after the 1937 Turn        
The Politics of Free Expression

12 The Traditions of Dissent and Suppression in the Pluralist Democratic Regime          

World War II  
Red Scare       
Vietnam War   

13 Open Questions


Notes  
Index