What kinds of expression and behavior should be treated as "speech" for constitutional purposes? Must freedom of speech include the right of access to the media? And what is its relationship to obscenity cases, libel actions, and contempt of court proceedings? This book examines the legal protection of speech in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany under the European Convention of Human Rights. The author contends that in order to understand the meaning and scope of liberty of expression, we must turn to the moral and political writings which initially called for its protection.