What's Wrong with the First Amendment - Image 1

£52.50

Cambridge University Press What's Wrong with the First Amendment

Name: What's Wrong with the First Amendment
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Price: 52.5 GBP
Availability: InStock

International

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 9 months ago.

£53 today · all-time low £51 (Aug 2025) · usually the usual

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 631 days • 631 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 631 days • 4 price ranges

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common range: £51-59 (321 days, 50.9%)

Price range: £51 - £90

Price levels: 4 price ranges over 631 days

Description

What is Wrong with the First Amendment? argues that the US love affair with the First Amendment has mutated into free speech idolatry. Free speech has been placed on so high a pedestal that it is almost automatically privileged over privacy, fair trials, equality and public health, even protecting depictions of animal cruelty and violent video games sold to children. At the same time, dissent is unduly stifled and religious minorities are burdened. The First Amendment benefits the powerful at the expense of the vulnerable. By contrast, other Western democracies provide more reasonable accommodations between free speech and other values though their protections of dissent, and religious minorities are also inadequate. Professor Steven H. Shiffrin argues that US free speech extremism is not the product of broad cultural factors, but rather political ideologies developed after the 1950s. He shows that conservatives and liberals have arrived at similar conclusions for different political reasons. Review 'Steven H. Shiffrin challenges the conventional wisdom that safeguarding the freedom of speech necessarily entails protecting almost all communicative activities without regard to the functions they serve or the costs they generate. Deploying examples with a master's touch, he demonstrates how such indiscriminate blindness to consequences ill serves the noble, centuries-old struggle for freedom of thought. This book is much needed in an age when the bloating of the First Amendment threatens to cheapen it.' Vincent Blasi, Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties, Columbia Law School Book Description This book argues that America's relationship with the First Amendment jeopardizes privacy, equality, fair trials and democracy. About the Author Steven H. Shiffrin is Charles Frank Reavis Sr Professor of Law Emeritus at Cornell University, New York. He is the author of The Religious Left and Church-State Relations (2009), Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America (1999) and The First Amendment, Democracy, and Romance (1990), as well as the winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Award. He is also a co-author of Constitutional Law, 12th edition (2015) and The First Amendment, 6th edition (2015). His writings have appeared in many publications, including the Cornell Law Review, the Harvard Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Northwestern Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, Commonweal, the New York Times Book Review, and the Washington Monthly.

Product Specifications

Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1107160960
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Law > International
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 06 October 2016
Listed Since: 02 June 2016

Barcode

No barcode data available

Cambridge University Press What's Wrong with the First Amendment

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 9 months ago.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

American First Amendment in the Twenty-First Century: Cases and Materials (University Casebook Series)

Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America

Fundamental Liberties of a Free People: Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly

Fundamental Liberties of a Free People: Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly

Elusive Balance: The Religion Clauses in Contemporary America

Constituting Equality: Gender Equality and Comparative Constitutional Law

The Constitutional Bases of Political and Social Change in the United States

Constitutional Debates on Freedom of Religion: A Documentary History (Primary Documents in American History and Contemporary Issues)

Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials (University Casebook Series)

The Government's Speech and the Constitution (Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties)

Human Rights in the States: New Directions in Constitutional Policymaking: 43 (Contributions in Legal Studies)

Commercial Speech as Free Expression: The Case for First Amendment Protection (Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties)

The Cosmopolitan First Amendment: Protecting Transborder Expressive and Religious Liberties

Loewy's the First Amendment Cases and Materials (American Casebooks) (American Casebook Series)

The Enduring Democracy (Book Only)

Religious Freedom v. Equal Protection: Clashing American Rights: 47 (Frontiers in Political Communication)

On the Relation between the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and National Fundamental Rights: A Comparative Analysis in the European Multilevel Court System

YSEC Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions 2021: Triangulating Freedom of Speech

The United States Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution, Democracy, and the Rule of Law (Controversies in American Constitutional Law)

Routledge Critiquing Free Speech - First Amendment Theory

Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials - CasebookPlus (University Casebook Series)

Comparative Constitutional Law (Research Handbooks in Comparative Law series)

First Amendment Law (University Casebook Series)

How Constitutional Rights Matter