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    <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-1"><a href="lectures.html"><b>INDEX</b></a><br><br><font size="+1"><center><i>Reading Revolutions:  Intellectual History</i><br><br><font size="+1">Writing, Speaking, Going to Jail:<br>A Reader's Theater of the First Amendment, with Discussion<br><br><font size="+0">Franklin D. Roberts <br>and Teresa Swartz Roberts</font></font></font><p>
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	<img border="0" src="pictures/FrankandTeresa/DSCN0833w.jpg" width="218" height="400" align="right" alt="Frank Roberts laughing at a joke" title="Frank Roberts laughing at a joke"></font><img border="0" src="pictures/FrankandTeresa/DSCN0907ws.jpg" width="300" height="225" alt="Teresa Swartz Roberts explaining concept" title="Teresa Swartz Roberts explaing concept"><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-1"><img border="0" src="pictures/FrankandTeresa/DSCN0737w.jpg" width="300" height="225" alt="Frank Roberts during the presentation" title="Frank Roberts during the presentation"></font></p>
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	<p><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-1">Their dramatic dialog brought out issues facing constitutional freedom of 
	speech.&nbsp; From the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 which President Adams 
	hoped to use to defeat his opponents to the Supreme Court's support of the 
	Sedition Act of 1918 in which Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., wrote that &quot;the question in every case is 
	whether the words used are in such circumstances and are of such a nature as 
	to create a	clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive 
	evils that Congress has a right to prevent.&quot; they explored attempts both to 
	define and to limit freedom of speech.&nbsp; </p>
	<p>Thought provoking issues were raised concerning the role of government, 
	the press, and the populace in deciding how much free speech society is 
	willing to entertain.</p>
	<p>Teresa and Frank switched smoothly from a debate form into dramatization 
	and then into discussion.&nbsp; They skillfully used different methods to 
	illustrate and raise questions concerning issues that faced us in the past 
	and those that are under current debate.</p>
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	<font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-1"><p>Following a lively question period, the audience was invited to come up 
	and leaf through several of the holdings in the Reading Revolutions 
	collection including the first edition of John Adams'
	<font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Reading_Revolutions/Adams.html"><i>A Defence of the Constitutions of 
	Government of the United States of America</a>.</i></font> </p><font size="+1">
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          <td width="100%"><blockquote><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-1"><br>Citation:<br><br>"Writing, Speaking, Going to Jail:
A Reader's Theater of the First Amendment, with Discussion."&nbsp; 
Account of a lecture given by Franklin D. Roberts and Teresa Swartz Roberts.&nbsp;  University of Maine at Farmington, August 31, 2005.&nbsp;
Retrieved _______. &nbsp;  &lt;http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Reading_Revolutions/firstamendment.html&gt;.<br><br>URL:  <a href="http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Reading_Revolutions/index.html">http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Reading_Revolutions/index.html</a>  <br><br>Marilyn Shea, 2005<br><br>

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