Toleration Without Hate Speech

The Keegstra Decision, American Free Speech Exceptionalism and Locke's Letter

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6235793
AutoresSamuel V Laselva (University of British Columbia, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen48
Número3
Páginas699-718
Fecha de publicación2015-09-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCanadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0008423915001043
OpenAlexW2606403771
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas14

This paper re-examines the issue of hate propaganda under the Canadian Charter of Rights and the US Bill of Rights. It also reconsiders the significance of Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration. What the paper attempts to show is that one strand of Locke's famous argument supports First Amendment exceptionalism and Justice Holmes's dissenting opinions in Abrams and Schwimmer, but another strand buttresses the Keegstra and Butler decisions and the Report of the Special Committee on Hate Propaganda in Canada. In the contemporary context of the debate over free speech and its limits, Lockean toleration has communitarian as well as libertarian dimensions, and the control of hate propaganda in Canada's multicultural and multinational polity becomes more clearly an important part of the liberal tradition

Argument (complex analysis · Constitution · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Dissenting opinion · Economic Justice · Equal Protection Clause · Exceptionalism · First amendment · Free speech · Law and economics · Liberalism · Marketplace of ideas · Political science · Politics · Polity · Sociology · Supreme court · Toleration · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Law, Rights, and Freedoms