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The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty, 1640–1800 (2012). Nelson, Harold Lewis, ed. Freedom of the Press from Hamilton to the Warren Court (Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1967) Powe, Lucas A. The Fourth Estate and the Constitution: Freedom of the Press in America (Univ of California Press, 1992) Ross, Gary.
As the British Crown owned the printing rights it was illegal to print this Bible in America. [102] Subsequently, the printing was conducted as privately as possible and bore the London imprint from which it was copied, to avoid prosecution and detection of the unauthorized printing. [103]
Elmer Gantry was banned in the Irish Free State. [168] The House of Gold: Liam O'Flaherty: 1929 Novel The first book to be banned by the Irish Free State for alleged "indecency". Republished in 2013. [169] A Farewell to Arms: Ernest Hemingway: 1929 Novel Suppressed in the Irish Free State. [167] Marriage and Morals: Bertrand Russell: 1929 Non ...
Freedom of the press gives the printer or publisher exclusive control over what the publisher chooses to publish, including the right to refuse to print anything for any reason. [3] If the author cannot reach a voluntary agreement with a publisher to produce the author's work, then the author must turn to self-publishing.
Today, the target of book censorship may be either a print, electronic, or audiobook, or a curriculum that includes such sources. [17] [6] [18] Targeted texts may be held by a business such as a bookstore; a library, either a public library or one located in a school or university; or the school or university as a whole. [19]
The American Free Press is a weekly newspaper published in the United States. The newspaper's direct ancestor was The Spotlight , which ceased publication in 2001 when its parent organization, Liberty Lobby , was forced into bankruptcy .
A bunch of guns. America’s love of guns is not new, but this love only turned into in obsession in recent years. Young people today have only ever known a world in which the worship of guns and ...
Though the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was designed to protect freedom of the press, for most of the history of the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court failed to use it to rule on libel cases. This left libel laws, based upon the traditional "Common Law" of defamation inherited from the English legal system, mixed across the states.