First Amendment Rights: An Encyclopedia Available to Purchase

ABC-Clio's First Amendment Rights: An Encyclopedia is available both in print and as an e-book. This review is for the e-book edition, though the text and page numbering are the same in both. The two-volume work begins with content that provides a basic framework for understanding the historical context and popular, as well as legal, underpinnings of the First Amendment.

Volume 1 discusses broad-ranging controversies and issues involving the First Amendment during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The introduction and the first two chapters cover traditional approaches to the First Amendment and provide an in-depth overview. This section elucidates several...