The First Amendment is perhaps the most important - and most
debated - amendment in the US Constitution. It establishes freedom
of speech, as well as that of religion, the press, peaceable
assembly and the right to petition the government. But how has the
interpretation of this amendment evolved? Milton Cantor explores
America's political response to the challenges of social unrest and
how it shaped the meaning of the First Amendment throughout the
twentieth century. This multi-layered study of dissent in the
United States from the early 1900s through the 1970s describes how
Congress and the law dealt with anarchists, syndicalists,
socialists, and militant labor groups, as well as communists and
left-of-center liberals. Cantor describes these organizations'
practices, policies, and policy shifts against the troubled
background of war and overseas affairs. The volume chronologically
explores each new challenge - both events and legislation - for the
First Amendment and how the public and branches of government
reacted. The meaning of the First Amendment was defined in the
crucible of threats to national security. Some perceived threats
were wartime events; the First World War instigated awareness of
civil liberties, but in those times, security trumped liberty. In
the peace that followed, efforts to curtail speech continued to
prevail. Cantor analyzes the decades-long divisiveness regarding
First Amendment decisions in the Supreme Court, coming down
squarely in criticism of those who have argued for greater
government control over speech.
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