First Amendment Freedoms: A Reference Handbook

First Amendment Freedoms: A Reference Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the First Amendment freedoms of religion, speech, and assembly, providing valuable data and documents for further research. It covers historical events, problems, controversies, perspectives, profiles, governmental data, and resources, with a detailed chronology of major events.

Format: Hardback
Length: 372 pages
Publication date: 01 March 2021
Publisher: ABC-CLIO

First Amendment Freedoms: A Reference Handbook

offers a comprehensive examination of the discourse on First Amendment freedom issues in an objective and unbiased manner, providing valuable data and documents to guide readers to further research on the subject.

First Amendment Freedoms: A Reference Handbook

provides a comprehensive, objective, and accessible source of 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.

ISBN-13: 9781440869297
Edition number: Annotated ed