Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press
The liberty of written and spoken expression has been fixed in the firmament of our social values since our nation’s beginning—the government of the United States was the first to legalize free speech and a free press as fundamental rights. But when the British began colonizing the New World,...
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The liberty of written and spoken expression has been fixed in the firmament of our social values since our nation’s beginning—the government of the United States was the first to legalize free speech and a free press as fundamental rights. But when the British began colonizing the New World, strict censorship was the iron rule of the realm; any words, true or false, that
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780393245462 (0393245462)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English