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- Title: Rehearsal for Media Regulation: Congress Versus the Telegraph-News Monopoly, 1866-1900.
- Author : Federal Communications Law Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 316 KB
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I. THE CENTURY THAT NEVER HAPPENED Until quite recently, legal scholarship tended to consider the nineteenth century a First Amendment wasteland. No landmark Supreme Court decisions or major debates in the legal system alerted legal scholars to the evolution of free expression ideas and practices in that otherwise lively century. (1) This presumed century-long stasis should have appeared curious: after all, the years between the demise of alien and sedition laws and the era of the World Wars witnessed the radical democratization of American politics, political debate, and the media coverage of both. That period also witnessed revolutions, first in transportation and then in electric communications, which together transformed the nation's information environment and its press. The nineteenth century also produced the greatest event of United States history--the Civil War--in which the concepts of freedom and rights were central. That same century hosted the American Industrial Revolution and processes of centralization and national integration. These historical processes should have had a significant beating on the development of free-speech-related theory and practice.
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