Author: Lewis Hamilton Meader
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Horst Dippel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3598357575
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Author: Joel Simon
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231538332
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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An examination of how the media is under fire and how to safeguard journalists and the information they seek to share with the public. Journalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers. Online surveillance is annihilating privacy, and the Internet can be brought under government control at any time. Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, warns that we can no longer assume that our global information ecosystem is stable, protected, and robust. Journalists are increasingly vulnerable to attack by authoritarian governments, militants, criminals, and terrorists, who all seek to use technology, political pressure, and violence to set the global information agenda. Reporting from Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, and Mexico, among other hotspots, Simon finds journalists under threat from all sides. The result is a growing crisis in information—a shortage of the news we need to make sense of our globalized world and fight human rights abuses, manage conflict, and promote accountability. Drawing on his experience defending journalists on the front lines, he calls on “global citizens,” U.S. policy makers, international law advocates, and human rights groups to create a global freedom-of-expression agenda tied to trade, climate, and other major negotiations. He proposes ten key priorities, including combating the murder of journalists, ending censorship, and developing a global free-expression charter to challenge the criminal and corrupt forces that seek to manipulate the world's news. “Wise and insightful. [Simon] offers hope to all who care about maintaining the free flow of information in a world full of would-be censors.”—Ann Cooper, Columbia Journalism School

Author: Robert Corn-Revere
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110712994X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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The book explores the importance of free speech in America by telling the stories of its chief antagonists - the censors.

Author: Vermont
Publisher:
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Category : Land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 570

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Author: Vermont. Council of Censors
Publisher:
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 854

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Author: William Popper
Publisher:
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Category : Censorship
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Author: Francis Newton Thorpe
Publisher:
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Category : Charters
Languages : en
Pages : 702

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Author: Horst Dippel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3598440979
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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The seven-volume edition contains 446 constitutional texts, constitutional amendments, failed constitutions and draft constitutions from the United States, all in their original languages and alphabetically ordered by states. The texts, including some rare original versions, have been edited and annotated on the basis of the printed official state documents and conventions, consulting the original manuscripts. The constitutional documents from Vermont to Wisconsin are published in volume VII.

Author: Randy Robertson
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271036559
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Censorship profoundly affected early modern writing. Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England offers a detailed picture of early modern censorship and investigates the pressures that censorship exerted on seventeenth-century authors, printers, and publishers. In the 1600s, Britain witnessed a civil war, the judicial execution of a king, the restoration of his son, and an unremitting struggle among crown, parliament, and people for sovereignty and the right to define “liberty and property.” This battle, sometimes subtle, sometimes bloody, entailed a struggle for the control of language and representation. Robertson offers a richly detailed study of this “censorship contest” and of the craft that writers employed to outflank the licensers. He argues that for most parties, victory, not diplomacy or consensus, was the ultimate goal. This book differs from most recent works in analyzing both the mechanics of early modern censorship and the poetics that the licensing system produced—the forms and pressures of self-censorship. Among the issues that Robertson addresses in this book are the workings of the licensing machinery, the designs of art and obliquity under a regime of censorship, and the involutions of authorship attendant on anonymity.