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Taming Free Speech w/ Laura Weinrib

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The Progressives and the War on Terrorism

Free speech, open debate was how progressive ideas got themselves translated into law. Ideas that had been considered undesirable or taboo a few decades earlier made their way into legislation through free and open debate. So the progressives for the most part were until World War I, quite encouraging of open debate.

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