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1. there are plenty of restrictions on free speech.

Reply to billh58 (Original post)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 10:26 AM

Jul 2016

very few people are such free speech absolutists that they believe incitement to riot, slander, libel, blackmail, etc. should all be legal.

shouldn't people be able to walk into a bank and make verbal threats and ask for all the money in the vault? it's free speech, right?

much of constitutional interpretation involves finding the right balance between its various parts, not taking one part in isolation and acting as if that's the end of all discussion.

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The Fallacy of Second Amendment Absolutism [View all] billh58 Jul 2016 OP

there are plenty of restrictions on free speech. unblock Jul 2016 #1

The hard core billh58 Jul 2016 #2

I wonder what these "Constitutional absolutists" say about the Seventh Amendment? lastlib Jul 2016 #3