Book contents
- Our Democratic First Amendment
- Our Democratic First Amendment
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Framers’ Democratic First Amendment
- Part II The Democratic First Amendment in the Age of Twitter
- 5 Cacophony: Speech and Press in the Internet Era
- 6 DeSiloing: Of Civic Associations, Book Clubs, and Taverns
- 7 Why Assembly and Petition Still Matter
- Conclusion
- Index
Conclusion
from Part II - The Democratic First Amendment in the Age of Twitter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2020
- Our Democratic First Amendment
- Our Democratic First Amendment
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Framers’ Democratic First Amendment
- Part II The Democratic First Amendment in the Age of Twitter
- 5 Cacophony: Speech and Press in the Internet Era
- 6 DeSiloing: Of Civic Associations, Book Clubs, and Taverns
- 7 Why Assembly and Petition Still Matter
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
American democracy finds itself in a strange place in the first quarter of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, the country suffers from bitter, partisan divisions as reflected in the fact that adults who identify themselves with a political party increasingly demonstrate strong loyalty to their own party, and even stronger distaste for the other party. A 2017 Gallup poll reveals, astonishingly, that large majorities of self-identified Democrats and Republicans strongly prefer that their children marry someone from their political party – while a similar majority support same-sex marriage, and a much larger majority accept interracial marriage.2 At the same time, huge numbers of Americans are utterly disengaged from politics, so much so that they do not even bother to vote.
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- Our Democratic First Amendment , pp. 160 - 163Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020