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more information - www.cambridge.org/9780521767194 ON DISSENT America values dissent. It tolerates, encourages, and protects it. But what is this thing we value? That is a question never asked. “Dissent” is treated as a known fact. For all that has been said about dissent – in books, articles, judicial opinions, and popular culture – it is remarkable that no one has devoted much, if any, inktoexplainingwhatdissentis.Noonehasattemptedtosketch itsphilosophical,linguistic,legal,orculturalmeaningsorusages. Thereisaneedtodevelopsomeclarityaboutthisphenomenonwe calldissent,fornoteverydifferenceofopinion,symbolicgesture, public activity in opposition to government policy, incitement to directaction,revolutionaryeffort,orpoliticalassassinationneeds betaggeddissent.Inessence,wehavenoconceptualyardstick.It isjustthatmeasureofmeaningthatOnDissentoffers. Ronald K. L. Collins is the Harold S. Shefelman Scholar at the UniversityofWashingtonLawSchool.Collinswasascholaratthe Washington, DC, office of the First Amendment Center, where hewroteandlecturedonfreedomofexpression,andwhereheis stillaSeniorFellow.HisjournalisticwritingsontheFirstAmend- menthaveappearedinColumbiaJournalismReview,theNewYork Times, and the Washington Post, among other publications. He is the book editor of SCOTUSblog. In addition to the books that hehascoauthoredwithDavidM.Skover,Collinsistheeditorof OliverWendellHolmes:AFreeSpeechChronicleandReader(2010) andcoauthor,withSamChaltain,ofWeMustNotBeAfraidtoBe Free(2011).HislatestbookisNuancedAbsolutism:FloydAbrams andtheFirstAmendment(2013). David M. Skover is the Fredric C. Tausend Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law. He teaches, writes, and lec- turesinthefieldsoffederalconstitutionallaw,federaljurisdiction, mass communications theory, and the First Amendment. Skover graduatedfromtheWoodrowWilsonSchoolofInternationaland Domestic Affairs at Princeton University. He received his law degreefromYaleLawSchool,wherehewasaneditoroftheYale LawJournal.Thereafter,heservedasalawclerkforJudgeJonO. NewmanoftheU.S.CourtofAppealsfortheSecondCircuit.In addition to the books that he has coauthored with Ronald K. L. Collins,heisthecoauthor,withPierreSchlag,ofTacticsofLegal Reasoning(1986). O D N ISSENT ITS MEANING IN AMERICA RONALD K. L. COLLINS & DAVID M. SKOVER CAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESS Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,NY10013-2473,USA www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521767194 (cid:2)C RonaldK.L.CollinsandDavidM.Skover2013 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2013 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Collins,RonaldK.L.,author. Ondissent:itsmeaninginAmerica/RonaldK.L.Collins,Universityof Washington,LawSchool,Seattle,DavidM.Skover,SeattleUniversity, SchoolofLaw. pagescm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-521-76719-4(hardback) 1.Government,Resistanceto–UnitedStates 2.Dissentingopinions– UnitedStates. 3.Judicialopinions–UnitedStates. 4.Dissenters– Legalstatus,laws,etc.–UnitedStates. I.Skover,DavidM.,1951– author. II.Title. KF4786.C65 2013 322.40973–dc23 2012042745 ISBN978-0-521-76719-4Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferred tointhispublicationanddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch Websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. TotheMemoryof THOMAS PAINE andtothe SpiritofAllAmericans WhoDaretoHeedHisCreedofDissent CONTENTS InformationisPersonae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Prologue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi ChapterI: FromJudicialDissenttoPeacefulProtest . . . . . 1 ChapterII: FromCiviltoUncivilDisobedience. . . . . . . .27 ChapterIII: TheVagariesofViolence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 ChapterIV: Dissent,Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81 ChapterV: DissentandLaw’sParameters. . . . . . . . . . .103 Epilogue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129 Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135 Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151 AbouttheAuthors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153 AbouttheInformationisPersonae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 SelectandAnnotatedBibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173 vii
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