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Make No Law : The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment
Make No Law The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment
Author: Anthony Lewis
The First Amendment puts it this way: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Yet, in 1960, a city official in Montgomery, Alabama, sued The New York Times for libel -- and was awarded $500,000 by a local jury -- because the paper had published an ad critical of Montgomery's brutal response to civil right...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780394587745
ISBN-10: 039458774X
Publication Date: 8/13/1991
Pages: 354
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Publisher: Random House
Book Type: Hardcover
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