Areopagitica / John Milton -- An apology for printers / Benjamin Franklin -- An American Cato defends criticism of the government / Cato -- Sentiments on the liberty of the press / Andrew Bradford -- Andrew Hamilton defends John Peter Zenger / Andrew Hamilton -- Libels, liberty of the press / William Blackstone -- The Federalist no. 84 / Alexander Hamilton -- Reply to the Pennsylvania minority / Noah Webster -- Letter to Edward Carrington / Thomas Jefferson -- The Virginia report of 1799 / James Madison -- From Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Contempt of court : Patterson v. Colorado -- Publishing dissenting views in wartime : Frohwerk v. United States -- Prior restraint : Near v. Minnesota -- The press and the taxes on knowledge : Grosjean v. American Press Co. -- The end of seditious libel : New York Times v. Sullivan -- Broadcast licensees and fairness : Red Lion Broadcasting Company v. FCC -- Censorship and national security : New York Times v. United States -- Is there a journalist's privilege? : Branzburg v. Hayes -- Narrowing obscenity : Miller v. California -- Newspapers and the right of reply : Miami Herald v. Tornillo -- Free press and fair trial : Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart -- Reporting on judicial discipline : Landmark Communications. v. Virginia -- Prior restraint and the end of the world : United States v. Progressive, Inc. -- Pornography and women's rights : American Booksellers Association, Inc. v. Hudnut -- Offensive parody : Hustler Magazine v. Falwell -- Access to criminal trials : Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia -- Promises of confidentiality as contracts : Cohen v. Cowles Media -- Free speech on the Internet : Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union -- The Bill of Rights / Hugo L. Black -- From Toward a general theory of the First Amendment / Thomas Emerson -- Neutral principles and some First Amendment problems / Robert Bork -- Or of the press / Potter Stewart -- The media that citizens need / C. Edwin Baker -- From the preface to Emergence of a free press / Leonard W. Levy -- Rethinking prior restraint / John Calvin Jefferies, Jr. -- Or of the [Blog] / Paul Horwitz.