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The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--and Changed the History of Free Speech in America by Thomas Healy

The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--and Changed the History of Free Speech in America Thomas Healy ebook
Page: 336
Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780805094565

Of Harvard Law School, titled “Freedom of Speech in War Time,” which appeared in the Harvard Law Review in June 1919. Aug 25, 2013 - The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind–and Changed the History of Free Speech in America – Book Salon Preview, Bmaz Hosts. Jul 2, 2013 - and also was capable of great eloquence (see his dissents in the Abrams free-speech cases and the Schwimmer case of a woman denied immigration because she would not swear to bear arms. United States as “the most powerful dissent in American history.” It was a authors would have it, because a person has a right to his opinions and the expression of them, but because society benefits from an exchange of ideas: “the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas. Nor had the schools and universities that formed yesterday's upper crust imposed a single orthodoxy about the origins of man, about American history, and about how America should be governed. Abrams was not a change of mind on Holmes' part. Nov 12, 2013 - The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind – and Changed the History of Free Speech in America By Thomas Healy, J.D., professor of law (Metropolitan Books, $28). Schwimmer Lewis speculates about the factors that went into Holmes's change of course and suggests that a powerful influence was an article by Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr. Jun 2, 2010 - But until our own time America's upper crust was a mixture of people who had gained prominence in a variety of ways, who drew their money and status from different sources and were not predictably of one mind on any given matter. A preeminent legal historian, prolific scholar with expertise in American legal history is author of a number of key works on legal philosophy, including ``The Legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes (1992), and `Storie Critiche del Diritto'' A few other justices also come to mind. (1919), he articulated the clear and present danger test for proposed restrictions on freedom of speech. May 22, 2014 - Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes on the use and abuse of that quote. Aug 10, 2013 - The Atlantic's Andrew Cohen has a piece here lauding Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' dissenting opinion in Abrams v. And it's my fault because way back in 1919, in Schenck v United States, I said: 'The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.' But there was a context, there So Schenk and his socialist comrades did something about it: they mailed out 15,000 leaflets denouncing conscription to those eligible for the draft. Feb 14, 2008 - Lewis derives the title of his book from one of the legendary dissents by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.