Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community, and the First Amendment - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Donald Alexander DownsSeries:Notre Dame Studies in Law and Contemporary Issues #1Publish date:1986-02-28Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Notre Dame PressISBN-13:9780268014629ISBN-10:268014620UPC:9780268014629Book Category:History, Political Science, LawBook Subcategory:Jewish, Political Ideologies, Legal HistoryBook Topic:DemocracySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SC4NK0PCM7
Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community, and the First Amendment
In 1977, a Chicago-based Nazi group announced its plans to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois, the home of hundreds of Holocaust survivors. The shocked survivor community rose in protest and the issue went to court, with the ACLU defending the Nazis' right to free speech. The court ruled in the Nazis' favor. According to the "content neutrality doctrine" governing First Amendment jurisprudence, the...
Series: Notre Dame Studies in Law and Contemporary Issues #1
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Notre Dame PressISBN-13:9780268014629ISBN-10:268014620UPC:9780268014629Book Category:History, Political Science, LawBook Subcategory:Jewish, Political Ideologies, Legal HistoryBook Topic:DemocracySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SC4NK0PCM7
Donald Downs is the Alexander Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science, Law, and Journalism at UW-Madison, and the Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Professor of Political Science at the University. He is also the director and co-founder of the University's Wisconsin Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy (2007-present). In 2013, Downs received the national Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom...
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