First Amendment Freedoms: A Reference Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the discourse on First Amendment freedom issues in an objective and unbiased manner and provides valuable data and documents to guide readers to further research on the subject.

This accessible resource provides critically important information on the First Amendment freedoms of religion, speech, and assembly, and the post-Civil War Fourteenth Amendment. Geared for high school and college readers, it covers relevant historical events from the adoption of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to the array of Supreme Court cases that further defined the scope and limits of First Amendment freedoms.

Composed of seven chapters, plus a glossary and index, the volume will present the background and history of the First Amendment; problems, controversies, and solutions; a perspectives chapter with nine original essay contributions; profiles of the leading actors and organizations involved in First Amendment politics; governmental data and excerpts of primary documents on the topic; and a resources chapter comprising an annotated list of the key books, scholarly journals, and nonprint sources on the topic. It closes with a detailed chronology of major events concerning First Amendment freedoms.

First Amendment Freedoms: A Reference Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the discourse on First Amendment freedom issues in an objective and unbiased manner and provides valuable data and documents to guide readers to further research on the subject.

About the Author
Michael C. LeMay, PhD, is professor emeritus of political science at California State University, San Bernardino.

Reviews
The excellent scholarly essays and the information consolidated here will be valuable to students of U.S. history and the Constitution. * Library Journal *
Its timely publication offers an exhaustive and reasoned examination of this seminal amendment, one that is stridently front and center today. * Booklist *


Awards
Winner of Top 10 Reference List of 2022 2022.



Book Information
ISBN 9781440869297
Author Michael C. LeMay
Format Hardback
Page Count 392
Imprint ABC-CLIO
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Weight(grams) 652g