First Freedoms A Documentary History of First Amendment Rights in America

by Haynes, Charles C.; Chaltain, Sam; Glisson, Susan M.

• ISBN13: 9780195157505
• ISBN10: 0195157508
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In First Freedoms, noted First Amendment scholars Charles C. Haynes, Sam Chaltain, and Susan M. Glisson present nearly forty documents that helped shape the history of the First Amendment in the United States. Through the lens of primary sources spanning more than three hundred years, First Freedoms demonstrates how liberty and justice in the United States have been shaped by the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment: religious liberty and freedom of speech, assembly, petition, and the press. An illustrated historical essay sets every document in its historical context and is followed by a facsimile of the document itself in its original form, whether a bilingual Japanese-English newspaper or a scribbled handwritten note from one Supreme Court justice to another. Where necessary, a transcript accompanies the document.

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(2)
Nat Hentoff
Introduction	11	(2)
Charter of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1663	13	(9)
King Charles II
Two Treatises of Government 1690	22	(7)
John Locke
The New-York Weekly Journal, ``Of Freedom of Speech; That the same is inseparable from publick Liberty,'' 1734	29	(4)
John Trenchard
Thomas Gordon
Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776	33	(7)
George Mason
Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom, 1786	40	(5)
Thomas Jefferson
Senate Revisions to the House-Passed Amendments to the Constitution, 1789	45	(5)
The Sedition Act, 1798	50	(6)
Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America, 1829	56	(8)
David Walker
Request of the Cherokee People of the Aquohee and Taquohee Districts, 1832	64	(6)
John Ross
Petition to the U.S. Congress from Ninety-seven Citizens, 1837	70	(7)
Gag Rule Resolution, 1837	77	(5)
People v. Hall, 1854	82	(11)
General Order No. 12, 1862	93	(6)
Ulysses S. Grant
The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1868	99	(7)
An Act to Regulate the Use of the Capitol Grounds, 1882	106	(7)
Seven-Year-Old Rosie, an Experienced Oyster-Shucker, Bluffton, South Carolina, 1913	113	(5)
Lewis Hine
U.S. House Resolution 8753, 1918	118	(7)
Manifesto and Program, 1919	125	(5)
The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1920	130	(5)
Tennessee House Bill No. 185, 1925	135	(5)
John Butler
The Saturday Press, November 19, 1927	140	(6)
Jay M. Near
Howard Guilford
Press Statement, 1932	146	(6)
President Herbert Hoover
Letter to Minersville, Pennsylvania, School Directors, 1935	152	(6)
Billy Gobitas
Heart Mountain Sentinel, 1942	158	(6)
Bill Hosokawa
U.S. Senate Resolution 301, 1954	164	(5)
Heed Their Rising Voices, 1960	169	(5)
Memorandum to Hugo Black, 1962	174	(6)
William O. Douglas
Official Program for the March on Washington, 1963	180	(5)
Black Armband, 1965	185	(5)
Mary Beth
John Tinker
The Plan of Delano, 1966	190	(5)
Luis Valdez
Front Page, New York Times, June 13, 1971	195	(5)
Section 42.09, Texas State Penal Code, 1973	200	(4)
We Are Coming! 1976	204	(6)
Frank Collin
The Williamsburg Charter, Summary of Principles, 1988	210	(4)
Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon, et al. v. Smith et al., 1990	214	(6)
Zelman, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Ohio, et al. v. Simmons-Harris et al., 2002	220	(6)
Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, 2001 A Resolution of the City of Eugene Defending the Bill of Rights and Civil Liberties, 2002	226	(8)
Timeline of First Amendment Rights in America	234	(8)
Further Reading	242	(3)
Websites	245	(2)
Index	247	(5)
Picture and Document Credits	252	(2)
First Amendment Center	254