Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Categorization -- Content -- Context -- Principles -- Sedition Act (July 14, 1798) -- Introduction -- John Quincy Adams’s Letter on the “Gag Rule” (May 25, 1836) -- Introduction -- Conclusion -- Robert LaFollette’s “Free Speech during Wartime” Speech (October 6, 1917) -- Introduction -- Eugene Debs’s Speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918) -- Introduction -- Schenck v. United States (March 3, 1919) -- Introduction -- Abrams v. United States (November 10, 1919) -- Introduction -- Whitney v. California (May 16, 1927) -- Introduction -- Conclusion -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” Speech (January 6, 1941) -- Introduction -- Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (March 9, 1942) -- Introduction -- West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (June 14, 1943) -- Introduction -- Margaret Chase Smith’s “Declaration of Conscience” Speech (June 1, 1950) -- Introduction -- Conclusion -- Talley v. California (March 7, 1960) -- Introduction -- Edwards v. South Carolina (February 25, 1963) -- Introduction -- New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (March 9, 1964) -- Introduction -- Mario Savio’s “Bodies upon the Gears” Speech (December 2, 1964) -- Introduction -- United States v. O’Brien (May 27, 1968) -- Introduction -- Pickering v. Board of Education (June 3, 1968) -- Introduction -- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (February 24, 1969) -- Introduction -- Watts v. United States (April 21, 1969) -- Introduction -- Per Curiam -- Brandenburg v. Ohio (June 8, 1969) -- Introduction -- Per Curiam -- Cohen v. California (June 7, 1971) -- Introduction -- New York Times Co. v. United States (June 30, 1971) -- Introduction -- Police Department of Chicago v. Mosley (June 26, 1972) -- Introduction -- Miller v. California (June 21, 1973) -- Introduction -- Erznoznik v. City of Jacksonville (June 23, 1975) -- Introduction -- Bates v. State Bar of Arizona (June 27, 1977) -- Introduction -- Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc. (February 25, 1986) -- Introduction -- Bethel School District v. Fraser (July 7, 1986) -- Introduction -- Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (January 13, 1988) -- Introduction -- Conclusion -- Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell (February 24, 1988) -- Introduction -- Texas v. Johnson (June 21, 1989) -- Introduction -- Reno v. ACLU (June 26, 1997) -- Introduction -- Conclusion -- Russ Feingold’s Speech on the PATRIOT Act (October 25, 2001) -- Introduction -- Garcetti v. Ceballos (May 30, 2006) -- Introduction -- Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (June 27, 2011) -- Introduction -- Barack Obama’s Statement after the Charlie Hebdo Attack (January 7, 2015) -- Introduction -- House Joint Resolution No. 48 (April 28, 2015) -- Introduction -- Conclusion -- Reed v. Town of Gilbert (June 18, 2015) -- Introduction -- Timeline of Events -- Further Reading -- Index -- About the Author -- .