Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Political and jurisprudential worlds in conflict in the new Republic
Chapter 2. Politics in the new Republic
Chapter 3. Seditious and criminal libel in the colonies, the states, and the early Republic during the Washington administration
Chapter 4. Federalist partisan use of seditious libel - statutory and common
Chapter 5. Seditious and criminal libel during the Jefferson and Madison administrations 1800–16
Chapter 6. Partisan prosecutions for seditious and criminal libel in the state courts: federalists against republicans, republicans against federalists, and republicans against dissident republicans in struggles for party control
Chapter 7. Established jurisprudential doctrines (other than seditious and criminal libel) available in the new Republic for suppression of anti-establishment speech
Chapter 8. Still other nineteenth-century doctrines for suppression of anti-establishment speech: the law of blasphemy and the slave-state anti-abolition statutes
Chapter 9. Conclusion
Index.