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The Argument We Forgot How to Have

The First Amendment is 45 words long, and for most of American history nobody was entirely sure what they meant. The modern architecture of American speech protection—the doctrines governing incitement, defamation, prior restraint, public forums—was substantially built between 1964 […] The post The Argument We Forgot.

The Argument We Forgot How to Have

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The First Amendment is 45 words long, and for most of American history nobody was entirely sure what they meant.

The modern architecture of American speech protection—the doctrines governing incitement, defamation, prior restraint, public forums—was substantially built between 1964 […] The post The Argument We Forgot.

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The First Amendment is 45 words long, and for most of American history nobody was entirely sure what they meant. The modern architecture of American speech protection—the doctrines governing incitement, defamation, prior restraint, public forums—was substantially built between 1964 […] The post The Argument We Forgot.

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