TY  - BOOK
AU  - edited by  Ivan Hare, James Weinstein.
TI  - Extreme speech and democracy
SN  - 9780199601790
U1  - 342.0853EXT 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Freedom of speech
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -