While freedom of speech has been guaranteed us for centuries the first amendment as we know it today is largely a creation of the past eighty years eternally vigilant brings together a group of distinguished legal scholars to reflect boldly on its past its present shape and what forms our understanding of it might take in the future the result is a unique volume spanning the entire spectrum of first amendment issues from its philosophical underpinnings to specific issues like campaign . Download citation eternally vigilant free speech in the modern era while freedom of speech has been guaranteed us for centuries the first amendment as we know it today is largely a creation . Eternally vigilant free speech in the modern era editors lee c bollinger geoffrey r stone edition illustrated reprint publisher university of chicago press 2003 isbn 0226063542. Eternally vigilant free speech in the modern era edited by lee c bollinger and geoffrey r stone chicago the university of chicago press 2002 pp x 330 cloth 35 since the first amendments inception americans have agreed that free expression is foundational to our democratic way of life. 11025158x eternally vigilant free speech in the modern era university of chicago press 2001 with lee c bollinger 45