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Download full textGaziano, Cecilie – 1977
Public opinion polls about freedom of speech issues during a 30-year period (1937-70) were compared with Supreme Court decisions for the same period to determine the effects of public sentiment on judicial decision making. Two-thirds of the decisions conformed to a constitutionality model (that the Court should always uphold the First Amendment…
Descriptors: Adults, Civil Liberties, Constitutional History, Constitutional Law
