Description
| Product ID: | 9781108723671 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Our Democratic First Amendment |
| Authors: | Author: Ashutosh Bhagwat |
| Page Count: | 174 |
| Subjects: | Legal history, Legal history, Public international law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Public international law, Constitutional & administrative law, USA |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Readers interested in constitutional history, law, and politics will enjoy this engaging examination of the origins of the First Amendment and its relationship to democracy. Illuminating lessons from the conflicts of the Framing era, Bhagwat provides a deeper context for understanding contemporary politics in the age of social media. The First Amendment to the US Constitution protects free speech, freedom of the press, freedom of association and assembly, and the right to petition the government. Why did the Framers protect these particular rights? What role were these rights intended to play in our democracy? And what force do they retain in today''s world? In this highly readable account, Ashutosh Bhagwat explores the answers to these questions. The first part of the book looks at the history of the First Amendment, early political conflicts over its meaning, and the lessons to be learned from those events about the nature of our system of government. The second part applies those lessons to our modern, fractious democracy as it has evolved in the age of the Internet and social media. Now as then, the key to maintaining that democracy, it turns out, is an active citizenry that fully embraces the First Amendment. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-06-04 |
