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"Randall P. Bezanson takes up an essential and timely inquiry into the Constitutional limits of the Supreme Court's power to create, interpret, and enforce one of the essential rights of American citizens. Analyzing contemporary Supreme Court decisions from the past fifteen years, Bezanson argues that judicial interpretations have fundamentally and drastically expanded the meaning and understanding of "speech." Bezanson focuses on judgments such as the much-discussed Citizens United case, which granted the full measure of constitutional protection to speech by corporations, and the Doe vs. Reed case in Washington state, which recognized the signing of petitions and voting in elections as acts of free speech. In each case study, he questions whether the meaning of speech has been expanded too far and critically assesses the Supreme Court's methodology in reaching and explaining its expansive conclusions"--

The author takes up an essential and timely inquiry into the Constitutional limits of the Supreme Court's power to create, interpret, and enforce one of the essential rights of American citizens. Analyzing contemporary Supreme Court decisions from the turn of the twenty-first century, the author argues that judicial interpretations have fundamentally and drastically expanded the meaning and understanding of "speech." The author focuses on judgments such as the much-discussed Citizens United case, which granted the full measure of constitutional protection to speech by corporations, and the Doe vs. Reed case in Washington state, which recognized the signing of petitions and voting in elections as acts of free speech. In each case study, he questions whether the meaning of speech has been expanded too far and critically assesses the Supreme Court's methodology in reaching and explaining its expansive conclusions. --

The majority of the opinions are those of the Supreme Court. ; Cases originating in the contract for military supplies made by General Mina in 1816 and 1817 with the Baltimore Mexican Company. ; Interleaved. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Patents involved in litigation: p. 375-382. ; List of cases cited: p. 349-374. ; Bibliography: p. 317-347. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Reprinted from the Engineering magazine, May-June, 1912." ; Relates to a machine known as the rotary mimeograph. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Vol. 1 printed by W.H. Morrison ; "What is now vol. 2 Whitman was published first, apparently complete in itself. Afterwards vol. 1 was issued, containing cases prior to those in the volume already published, and copies of the latter, subsequently bound up, were entitled vol. 2. Wherever one of the original issue is found, without mark as a volume, it may be recognized, therefore, as vol. 2."--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884 ; v. 1. Dallas, Cranch, Wheaton, Peters, and Howard [1810-1860]--v. [2] 1 Black-20 Wallace [1861-1874] ; Mode of access: Internet.