二十一世纪的言论自由:来自二十世纪的十课

• 作 者: 杰弗里·R.斯通 邓淼 邓云成
• 机 构: 芝加哥大学法学院,上海交通大学凯原法学院法社会学研究中心,
• 出 处: 行政法论丛
• 发表日期: 2013年00期

在20世纪之交,我们对于美国宪法第一修正案几乎一无所知。尽管对于1798年《惩治煽动叛乱法》(Sedition Act of 1798)中的言论自由,以及19世纪早期和南北战争期间关于废奴文学的压制存在诸多重大争论,尽管19世纪期间在诸如淫秽和彩票之类的不同言论自由问题中美国州和联邦法院偶尔存在分歧,但对于第一修正案的意涵却没有一个统一的理解。①

At the turn of the 20th century, we knew almost nothing about the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Although there has been much controversy over the freedom of expression in the Sedition Act of 1798 and the suppression of abolitionist literature in the early nineteenth and during the Civil War, albeit in the nineteenth century, There are occasional disagreements between the states and the federal courts in the different types of freedom of speech in the class, but there is no unified understanding of the meaning of the First Amendment. ①