First Assignment Spring 2015
First Amendment Rights and Responsibilities
LAW 680 Section 61
David F. Forte
Assignment details
Welcome! Below are the initial assignments. I llok forward to being with you in this interesting and important course.
First Session
Political Speech
Introduction
Sullivan & Feldman, First Amendment Law, 5th ed., pages 2-9
OR
Sullivan and Feldman, Constitutional Law, 18th ed., pages 886-893
AND
the following in Forte, Sources and Additional Materials. Available at Support Services, pages 1-31
John Milton Areopagitica (1644)
Blackstone, Liberty of the Press (1765-1769)
An Appeal to the Inhabitants of Quebec (1764)
Free Speech and Free Press Clauses (1789)
Madison and the Drafting of the First Amendment