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By Susan Williams

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Amidst the colossal array of literature at the First modification, it really is infrequent to listen to a clean voice discuss the 1st modification, yet in Truth, Autonomy, and Speech, Susan H. Williams offers a strikingly unique interpretation and protection of the 1st modification, written from a feminist viewpoint. Drawing on paintings from a number of disciplines—including legislation, political conception, philosophy, and anthropology—the publication develops replacement bills of fact and autonomy because the foundations for freedom of expression. construction on feminist understandings of self and the social international, Williams argues that either fact and autonomy are essentially relational.

With nice readability and perception, Williams demonstrates that speech is the capability through which we create instead of detect fact and the first mechanism during which we inform the tales that represent our autonomy. She examines a number of arguable concerns within the legislation of loose speech—including crusade finance reform, the general public discussion board doctrine, and symbolic speech—and concludes that the felony doctrine by which we interpret and observe the 1st modification can be prepared to guard speech that serves the needs of fact and autonomy.

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