The creation of the First Amendment: “Founding Period” and “Original meaning”
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https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i7.50Keywords:
American Constitutional Law, Freedom of speech, Freedom of the press, , First Amendment, Original meaning.Abstract
The acknowledgement of the freedom of speech and press in the Bill of Rights and states’ Constitutions as well as in the American Constitution shows the presence of a strain of ideological fonts that had been originated in the colonial period, characterized the revolutionary process and that contributed to the vanishing of the English common law of seditious libel after the enactment of the First Amendment, representing the beginning of the historical process that would contribute to give his meaning.
Submission date: 11/11/2005
Acceptance date: 24/02/2006
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