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Article Title

A Democratic Political Economy for the First Amendment

Authors

Nelson Tebbe, Cornell Law School

Keywords

Distributive justice, Freedom of speech, Freedom of religion

Abstract

In this Article, I begin building an interpretation of the First Amendment that promotes the practical conditions for a vital democracy. I argue that considerations of distributive justice do properly affect interpretation of free speech and religious liberty. This is true even assuming that those provisions have priority over ordinary law, including economic regulation.

Recommended Citation

Nelson Tebbe, A Democratic Political Economy for the First Amendment, 105 Cornell L. Rev. 959 (2020)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/clr/vol105/iss3/9