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Most Basic of Rights, The: Limitations on Free Speech
In recent years, free speech limitations have been driven by equality issues, particularly concerns about hate speech that targets minority groups. The fact that it is a crime to deny the existence of the Holocaust in some European countries would b...
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Most Basic of Rights, The: Is Freedom of Speech an Absolute?
Even in the United States free speech is not an absolute. Competing values and interests are sometimes adjudicated in an attempt to design institutions and create legal rights that will meet broader needs.
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Determined to be Heard: Mobilization of Minorities
The success of the African American civil rights movement encourages other minorities to fight for their rights. Historian Brian Balogh relates the vast changes he experienced growing up in Miami, Florida. During the 1970s minority groups begin to a...