Joseph L. Esposito

Joseph L. Esposito supports his thesis with detailed historical accounts of the formation of the Constitution and early federal judiciary, the sedition trials and political schemes of the 1790s, the frustration of market-state Whigs to attract white working-class voters by exploiting their mehr anzeigen religious identities, the reckless machinations of Whig Republicans in precipitating a national crisis over a contrived threat, of oligarchy and white slavery, and the ideological oscillations of the Supreme Court from-market state to nation-state jurisprudence and back again. To reduce perversity in political rhetoric and free up pragmatic democratic practices, the author proposes a robust neo-Madisonian view of free speech, where political actors and their surrogates not only are free to speak and write but are also obligated to explain and, if necessary, retract and revise what they have said and written. Joseph L. Esposito is research associate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. weniger anzeigen