Obscene Literature and Constitutional Law: A Forensic Defense of...
Schroeder, Theodore, [1864-1953]. "Obscene" Literature and Constitutional Law: A Forensic Defense of Freedom of the Press. New York, Da Capo Press, 1972 reprint of the 1911 first edition. New introduction by Jerold S. Auerbach. xvii, 439 pp. Publisher's navy cloth, with gilt lettered spine label and front cover. Minor bump to the foot of the spine. Distinct diagonal crease to the upper right corner of the final forty pages, light sprinkled foxing to the edges, and minor scuffing to the rear pastedown. Otherwise internally clean. A good copy. $35. * A facsimile reprint of the pioneering 1911 legal treatise. Schroeder, a radical free-speech advocate and co-founder of the Free Speech League, mounts an exhaustive forensic defense against censorship. He systematically argues that the judicial enforcement of obscenity statutes is fundamentally unconstitutional due to the subjective, unprovable nature of "obscenity" itself.
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