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43 Drake L. Rev. 1 (1993-1995)
The Road to Brandenburg: A Look at the Evolving Understanding of the First Amendment

handle is hein.journals/drklr43 and id is 15 raw text is: DAKE LAW REVIEW Volume 43 1994 Number 1 THE ROAD TO BRANDENBURG: A LOOK AT THE EVOLVING UNDERSTANDING OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT John F. Wirenius* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction .......................................... 2 II. Early Views Before the Conservative Revolution ............... 4 A. The Pre-Civil War Understanding ....................... 4 B. Enter the Fourteenth Amendment ....................... 7 III. The Conservative Revolution ............................. 10 A . Early Noises ...................................... 10 B. The Conservative Revolution Redux: The Birth of Substantive Protection ...................... 13 C. Common Law by Uncommon Lawyers: Holmes, Hand, and Constitutional Reasoning .............. 18 D. The Holmes-Brandeis Dissents ......................... 24 E. Justice Brandeis Recasts Clear and Present Danger .......... 30 IV. The Nascent Tradition .................................. 35 A. Dennis v. United States: Speech Wins by Losing ........... 36 B. The Dennis Dissents ................................ 40 C. Yates, Scales, and Noto: Justice Harlan's Balancing Act ...... 42 D. Brandenburg: Who Shall Claim the Victory? .............. 47 V . Conclusion .......................................... 49 * Associate, Solovay & Edlin, New York, New York. B.A., Fordham University, 1987; J.D., Columbia University School of Law, 1990. The author would like to thank Vincent Blasi of the Columbia Law School for suggesting several fruitful areas of inquiry, as well as Harold Ferguson, Michael T. Fois, and Franz Allina for their comments on an earlier draft of this Article. Finally, most of all, the author thanks Holly-Gale Millette, who, like Fanny Holmes before her, has made life poetry for her husband.

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