Concept of Toleration in American Society

LockeÆs first Letter Concerning Toleration had been written and published in Latin during his exile in Holland. After his return to England in relative triumph, traveling to England in 1689 on the ship that carried Princess Mary to London for her royal wedding and joint coronation with William of Orange, the Letter was published in English. In 1690, his two treatises on civil government were published, along with his Essay Concerning Human Understanding; these propelled him into prominence as a social thinker. Although Locke was not active in politics during the remaining 14 years of his life, Locke was considered the philosophical Elder Statesman of the Whig Party, and his advice was constantly sought. His reputation was equally high on the other side of the Atlantic, which is why he became in effect the philosophical mentor of Thomas Jefferson and why his philosophy served, and continues to serve, as the foundation for all American politica

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t: our right and duty to govern ourselves reflectively and deliberatelyö (48). That is, the NEA is a kind of trustbuster in the world of art, preventing artistic communication from being controlled by what amounts to a monopoly or a cartel. In his third chapter, ôThe Democratic Mission of the Press,ö Fiss considers issues of public access to information. He focuses on the formation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the mid-1960s as being again a way in which the government carried out its duty of preventing monopolization and leveling the playing field. Fiss also discusses at great length the controversies over the Fairness Doctrine and other attempts to ensure that media will carry many viewpoints. For example, Congress in the 1992 Cable Act required cable companies to carry local broadcasting stations, since otherwise those stations might lose so much of their audience that they would fail financially, thus tending to create a monopolistic situation (70). Supreme Court decisions on this Act and other regulatory laws have generally ruled unconstitutional any laws based on content but have found acceptable laws that increase the diversity and robustness of public dialogue. Fiss concludes with a hope that a balanc
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