Nazis in Skokie - Freedom, Community, and the First Amendment (Paperback)

In 1977, a Chicago-based Nazi group announced its plans to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois, the home of hundreds of Holocaust survivors. The shocked survivor community rose in protest and the issue went to court, with the ACLU defending the Nazis' right to free speech. The court ruled in the Nazis' favor. According to the "content neutrality doctrine" governing First Amendment jurisprudence, the Nazis' insults and villifications were "neutral"--not the issue, as far as the law was concerned. But to Downs, they are at issue. In Nazis in Skokie he challenges the doctrine of "content neutrality" and presents an argument for the minimal abridgment of free speech when that speech in intentionally harmful. Draawing on his interviews with participants in the conflict, Downs combines detailed social history with informed legal interpretation in a provocative examination of an abiding tension between individual freedom and community integrity, and between procedural and substantive justice.

General

Imprint:	University of Notre Dame Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Notre Dame Studies in Law and Contemporary Issues
Release date:	March 1985
First published:	1985
Authors:	Donald Alexander Downs
Dimensions:	235 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	228
ISBN-13:	978-0-268-01462-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Promotions
LSN:	0-268-01462-0
Barcode:	9780268014629

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