Areopagitica is a 1644 prose polemic by the English poet and author John Milton, opposing the Licensing Order of 1643, which had reintroduced censorship of books during the First English Civil War. It is among history's most influential philosophical defences of the right to freedom of speech and expression.
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Areopagitica is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression.
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is a 1644 prose polemic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John Milton
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