Murray Dry is Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College.

Dry examines the U.S. Supreme Court's treatment of the First Amendment freedoms of religion and speech against the founding of the American Constitution and its philosophical underpinnings.

1 Part One: Religious Freedom and Freedom of Speech in the American Founding 2 Chapter 1: The American Founding and the Puritan Origins 3 Chapter 2: Religious Freedom and Freedom of Speech in the State Constitutions of the Confederation Period 4 Chapter 3: The Federal Constitution and the Bill of Rights 5 Chapter 4: The Postfounding Debate on Freedom of Speech: The Sedition Act, the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, and the Virginia 6 Part Two: The First Amendment Freedoms in Political Philosophy 7 Chapter 5: Ancient Political Philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides 8 Chapter 6: Seventeenth Century Political Philosophy: Bacon, Hobbes, Milton, Locke, and Spinoza 9 Chapter 7: Montesquieu's Constitution of Liberty: The Spirit of the Laws 10 Chapter 8: John Stuart Mill's On Liberty 11 Part Three: The Supreme Court's Treatment of Freedom of Speech and Religious Freedom 12 Section A: Freedom of Speech 13 Chapter 9: Seditious Libel and Fifty Years of "Clear and Present Danger": From Schenck to Brandenburg 14 Chapter 10: The Preferred Position Doctrine and the Categorical Approach to Freedom of Speech: Libel 15 Chapter 11: The Increased Protection for "Fighting Words" and other "Offensive Speech," Obscenity, Pornography, and Commercial Speech 16 Chapter 12: Money and Speech and the Public Forum (or Time, Place and Manner) Doctrine 17 Section B 18 Chapter 13: Free Exercise Clause 19 Chapter 14: The Establishment Clause I 20 Chapter 15: The Establishment Clause II