Last Edited: 9/25/2017 11:50:02 AM by OUPride
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Last Edited: 12/10/2017 4:22:32 PM by Campus Flow
Last Edited: 12/8/2017 8:04:51 AM by rpbobcat
Nazis and the KKK have First Amendment rights, too.
See this discussion of two Supreme Court cases ruling thus:
https://tinyurl.com/ybjjjapw
A Key Quotes from the above:
The Court unanimously agreed with Brandenburg and struck down the Educating Young People about the Constitution Ohio law as unconstitutional. Interpreting the First Amendment, the Court reasoned that government cannot punish speech unless it meets two criteria: first, if it is “directed at inciting or producing imminent lawless action,” and second, if it is “likely to incite or produce such action.”
The salient concept here is the one of "imminent lawless action." The Court later expanded on this idea by saying that speaking about overthrowing the government as an abstract principle was protected. It was only when the speech was directed at taking immediate action to those ends that the First Amendment could be abridged.
Another quote from the article that summarizes the basic underlying premise of the First Amendment very well:
American writer Noam Chomsky said “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
Last Edited: 12/10/2017 1:35:02 PM by OhioCatFan
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