"Obscene" literature and constitutional law : a forensic defense of freedom of the press /
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| Author / Creator: | Schroeder, Theodore, 1864-1953, author. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Da Capo Press, 1972. ©1972 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 439 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10356265 |
Table of Contents:
- Prolegomena
- A statement of the contentions
- On the adverse emotional predisposition
- No obscene literature at common law
- Etiology and development of our censorship of sex-literature
- The reasons underlying our constitutional guarantee of a free press applied to sex-discussion
- Obscenity, prudery, and morals
- On the implied power to exclude "obscene" ideas from the mails
- Concerning the meaning of "freedom of the Press"
- The judicial destruction of freedeom of the press
- Judicial dogmatism on "freedom of the press"
- The historical interpretation of "freedom of speech and of the press"
- Science versus judicial dictum : a statement of novel contentions and a plea for open-mindedness
- Ethnographic study of modesty and obscenity
- Psychologic study of modesty and obscenity
- Uncertainty of the "moral" test of obscenity
- Varieties of official modesty
- Varieties of criteria of guilt
- "Due process of law" in relation to statutory undertainty and constructive offenses, part I. The scientific aspect of law
- "Due process of law" in relaton to statutory uncertainty and constructive offenses, part II. General considerations concerning undertainty and due process of law
- "Due process of law" ..., part IV. Certainty required by modern authorities
- "Due process of law" ..., part V. The synthesis and the application
- Ex post facto criteria of guilt are unconstitutional.