MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS

By SovConn | June 2, 2013

marketplace of ideas.A forum in which expressions of opinion can freely compete for acceptance without governmental restraint. • Although Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was the first jurist to discuss the concept as a metaphor for explaining freedom of speech, the phrase marketplace of ideas dates in American caselaw only from 1954.

[Blacks Law 8th]

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