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The eighteenth-century Americans who concern us here were not really American at all; they were, for the most part, English. Accordingly, the purpose of this chapter is to analyze the theoretical background from which the colonists of British America could draw. This will provide a benchmark against which later developments can be compared. More specifically, I survey the vast array of arguments that emerged during the seventeenth century, the first era of significant press liberty discourse in Anglo-American political thought. Many of those arguments later fell away because of the end of licensing, increased secularization, and broad philosophical shifts. The remaining arguments coalesced into two strains of argument that I have been calling free press doctrine and open press doctrine, borrowing the terms from the historical agents themselves. Throughout the course of this study we will follow eighteenth-century Americans as they isolate, re-examine, and recast these concepts, ultimately arriving at a recognizably modern, if still ambivalent, understanding of press liberty.My goal is to examine the English inheritance concerning press liberty and to define and analyze the distingu

Author

Robert W. T. Martin

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814756553

Subjects

Law, History, Political Science