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30 UCLA L. Rev. 455 (1982-1983)
The Origins of the Press Clause

handle is hein.journals/uclalr30 and id is 477 raw text is: ARTICLES THE ORIGINS OF THE PRESS CLAUSE David A. Anderson* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ....................................... 456 II. THE LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE PRESS CLAUSE... 462 A. Pre-Revolutionary Declarations .................. 463 B. The State Constitutions .......................... 464 C. The Constitutional Convention ................... 466 D. The State Raqfying Conventions ................. 467 E. The First Congress,- Writing the First Amendment ...................................... 475 1. Madison's Proposals in the House ........... 477 2. The First Amendment in the Senate ......... 480 3. Madison's Other Press Clause ............. 483 4. Some Observations on Congress' Work ...... 484 F. Ratifcation ...................................... 485 III. INTERPRETING THE LEGISLATIVE HISTORY ........... 486 IV. THE LEVY INTERPRETATION .......................... 494 A. The Thesis ...................................... 498 B. The Press Clause and the Common Law ......... 499 C. The Press Clause and Congress .................. 500 D. The Press Clause and the States ................. 506 V. THE MEANING OF FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IN 1789.. 509 A. Seditious Libel in America, Pre-1798 ............. 509 B. The Sedition Act of 1798.................... 515 1. The Sedition Act and The Framers........ 516 2. Irreconciliation .............................. 521 C. Broader Meanings ............................... 523 1. The Quebec Address ......................... 523 2. Cato's Influence ........................... 524 3. American Dissenters ......................... 527 * Professor of Law, The University of Texas at Austin. I am deeply indebted to my colleagues L.A. Powe, Jr., Mark G. Yudof, and Dwight L. Teeter, Jr., and to Professor Harold L. Nelson of the University of Wisconsin, for their thoughtful criti- ques of earlier drafts of this Article.

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