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The First Amendment in Cross-Cultural Perspective - A Comparative Legal Analysis of the Freedom of Speech (Paperback)
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The First Amendment in Cross-Cultural Perspective - A Comparative Legal Analysis of the Freedom of Speech (Paperback)
Series: Critical America
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The First Amendment-and its guarantee of free speech for all
Americans-has been at the center of scholarly and public debate
since the birth of the Constitution, and the fervor in which
intellectuals, politicians, and ordinary citizens approach the
topic shows no sign of abating as the legal boundaries and
definitions of free speech are continually evolving and facing new
challenges. Such discussions have generally remained within the
boundaries of the U.S. Constitution and its American context, but
consideration of free speech in other industrial democracies can
offer valuable insights into the relationship between free speech
and democracy on a larger and more global scale, thereby shedding
new light on some unexamined (and untested) assumptions that
underlie U.S. free speech doctrine. Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr.,
compares the First Amendment with free speech law in Japan, Canada,
Germany, and the United Kingdom-countries that are all considered
modern democracies but have radically different understandings of
what constitutes free speech. Challenging the popular-and largely
American-assertion that free speech is inherently necessary for
democracy to thrive, Krotoszynski contends that it is very
difficult to speak of free speech in universalist terms when the
concept is examined from a framework of comparative law that takes
cultural difference into full account.
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