Summary Of Free Speech In Constitutional Law

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Clarence Brandenburg was a 48 year old television repair shop owner, he lived in a small town in Ohio(free speech debate). He was a leader of the Ku Klux Klan ohio branch, in the summer of 1964 he held a rally to articulate and celebrate the white supremacist(free speech debate). When word got around about his planned rally, many people including the press went to go see what was going on. He expound on live television “ If our president, our congress, or supreme court, continues to suppress the white caucasian race, it's possible that there might have some revengences taken.”(free speech debate) He wanted a march in Washington D.C. for him and his klansman, and when he spoke he use foul and racial statements such as, “ The …show more content…

Free speech in political philosophy and its relation to American constitutional law.

In his article “ Free speech in political philosophy and its relation to American constitutional law: a consideration of Mill, Meiklejohn, and Plato “ Murray Dry (1994) argues that free speech is valued to everyone. The American Constitution's success, according to its Founders, required the people to understand the document. One telling argument for adding a bill of rights to the Constitution was "if a nation means its systems, religious or political, shall have duration, it ought to recognize the leading principles of them in the front page of every family book." (Constitutional commentary. 11.1, pg 81-100).

The supreme court recognized the laws of free speech for nude dancers and neo-nazis had as americans. The first amendment states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievance”. Which means that if anyone has anything to say they have all the right in the world to say it. If what they are saying is racist or threatening to another's life but, do not act upon their actions, then is also acceptable and cannot get into federal problems because of the first

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