Download or read book Discourses of Freedom of Speech written by J. Rudanko and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom of speech is a tradition distinctive to American political culture, and this book focuses on major debates and discourses that shaped this tradition. It sheds fresh light on key Congressional debates in the early American Republic, developing and applying an approach to fallacy theory suitable to the study of political discourse.