L’interprétation par la Cour suprême de la liberté d’expression d’après le Ier amendement de la Constitution des Etats-Unis pendant la période maccarthyste

Abstract

As a result of infringements of First Amendment freedom of expression and association during McCarthyism, the decisions handed down by the Supreme Court in famous cases showed that it failed to counterbalance the two other branches of government. This is an investigation into the composition of the Court and its judicial approaches, as well as into the standards it applied to subversive advocacy and the scope protection it granted to First Amendment freedoms in such a context of crisis. At the same time it emphasizes the fragility of democracies.