Extreme speech and democracy (Record no. 2726)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780199601790
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 342.0853EXT
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Personal name edited by Ivan Hare, James Weinstein.
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Title Extreme speech and democracy
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2009
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent lvii, 647 p. ; 24 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary, etc. Commitment to free speech is a fundamental precept of all liberal democracies. However, democracies can differ significantly when addressing the constitutionality of laws regulating certain kinds of speech. In the United States, for instance, the commitment to free speech under the First Amendment has been held by the Supreme Court to protect the public expression of the most noxious racist ideology and hence to render unconstitutional even narrow restrictions on hate speech. In contrast, governments have been accorded considerable leeway to restrict racist and other extreme expression in almost every other democracy, including Canada, the United Kingdom, and other European countries. This book considers the legal responses of various liberal democracies towards hate speech and other forms of extreme expression, and examines the following questions:
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Freedom of speech.
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam 01/17/2025   342.0853EXT 002751 01/31/2025 01/17/2025 Book