Conclusion: Enhancing speech and promoting democracy : the necessary role of the state in promoting democratic deliberation among citizen-speakers. The Public Forum Doctrine and reduced access to government property for speech activity -- The First Amendment as a source of positive rights : the Warren Court and First Amendment easements to private property -- Whistleblowing speech and democratic accountability : the growing problem of reduced First Amendment protection for government employee speech -- Shedding their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate : the decline of freedom of speech for students and teachers in the nation's public schools, colleges, and universities -- Transborder speech : using the accident of geography as a makeweight justification for suppressing expressive freedoms -- Systemic failures to protect newsgathering activities by professional journalists and amateur citizen-journalists alike -- The citizen as government sock puppet and the state masquerading as a citizen : the problem of coerced and misattributed speech -- Using constitutionally permissible statutes to impede First Amendment activity : the Supreme Court's failure to address the abuse of discretionary authority by police, prosecutors, and other nonjudicial actors -- Conclusion: Enhancing speech and promoting democracy : the necessary role of the state in promoting democratic deliberation among citizen-speakers.
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