International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology, 2022, 4(7); doi: 10.25236/IJFS.2022.040715.
Jinqi Guo
Communication University of China, Beijing, China
The First Amendment and Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment not only protect freedom of speech, but also provide institutional safeguards for freedom of speech and the press. In practical judicial application, courts have tended to protect a particular ideology regarding freedom of expression through the interpretation of the boundaries of the scope of the amendment's protection. This article hopes to discuss how the jurisprudential and ideological interpretations of these two amendments have been made in the U.S. judicial and public opinion environment, using Near v. Minnesota, 283U.S. 697 (1931) as an example.
prior restraint, first amendment, fourteenth amendment, press liberty
Jinqi Guo. Historical and Ideological Interpretations of the U.S. Press Freedom Environment——An Analysis of Prior Restraints as a Case Study. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2022), Vol. 4, Issue 7: 84-86. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2022.040715.
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