Taming Free Speech w/ Laura Weinrib
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The New Concept of Free Speech
During this period, there was emerging a new defense of free speech. People like John Dewey and Zechariah Chafee were starting to get nervous about the degree of repression they were seeing. They said we should protect their right to protest those laws to ensure that they have legitimacy. It's the very sort of thing that progressives opposed about the judiciary stepping into decisions made by the democratic state.
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