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Tolerating Intolerance: Why Hate Speech Is Free Speech
October 7th, 2004 · No Comments
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Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition
April 20th, 2004 · No Comments
The judicial history of free speech in America is the story of how justices—whom the Constitution designates to check and balance the power of congressmen and the president—are instead unwilling to act against them, lest a backlash against judicial activism ensue. As FDR put it while trying to pack the Court in 1937, the American […]
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Free Speech: Public Interest or Individual Right?
March 2nd, 2004 · No Comments
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Buckley v. Valeo
February 26th, 2004 · No Comments
In the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, Congress amended existing campaign finance laws to limit the amount that could be contributed to, or spent by, political campaigns. The Supreme Court considered these regulations in Buckley v. Valeo (1976) and made a momentous hash of the legislation. The verdict therefore both protects and violates free speech […]
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