Discourses of Freedom of Speech

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-8

3. Informal Fallacies in Two Procedural Debates on the Bill of Rights in the Summer of 1789

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   Pages 9-45

4. The Decision of August 13, 1789

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   Pages 46-53

5. Divisions on Freedom of Speech: Debates of November 1794

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   Pages 54-71

6. Freedom of Speech under Threat: The Sedition Act of 1798

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   Pages 72-104

7. Contesting and Defeating the Sedition Act of 1798

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   Pages 105-114

8. “[T]his Most Unnecessary, Unjust, and Disgraceful War”: Attacks on the Madison Administration in Federalist Newspapers during the War of 1812

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   Pages 115-142

9. Woodrow Wilson and the Threat to Freedom of Speech

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   Pages 143-179

10. Concluding Observations

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11. Back Matter

    Pages 189-201

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Freedom of speech is a tradition distinctive to American political culture, and this book focuses on major debates and discourses that shaped this tradition. It sheds fresh light on key Congressional debates in the early American Republic, developing and applying an approach to fallacy theory suitable to the study of political discourse.

• discourse
• liberty
• Woodrow Wilson
• discourse analysis

• University of Tampere, Finland

  Juhani Rudanko

JUHANI RUDANKO is Professor of English at the University of Tampere, Finland. His recent work has focused on the system of English predicate complementation in recent centuries, and on the pragmatic analysis of political discourse in the early American Republic. His previous publications include Changes in Complementation in British and American English.

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