Eloquence and Reason
CREATING A FIRST AMENDMENT CULTURE
Contents
Preface............................................ix
Acknowledgments....................................xiii
1 Freedom as a Matter of Faith.....................1
2 Metaphor and Community...........................23
3 Linguistic Transformation........................49
4 Political Pathways...............................78
5 War and Syntax...................................112
6 Adjudication as Facilitation.....................140
Coda...............................................163
Notes..............................................167
Index..............................................193
Chapter One
Freedom as a Matter of Faith
Mostly ignored by the United States Supreme Court for the first hundred
years after its reduction to parchment, the First Amendment played a central
role in a transformation of American political identity during the twentieth
century. During this period, the rights to speech and religion became defining
features of citizenship in the nation-state and t ... read full excerpt from Eloquence and Reason: Creating a First Amendment Culture ebook
