Free Speach
Date Submitted: 10/11/2002 18:30:05
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 4 pages (1188 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 4 pages (1188 words)
Freedom of Speech: My Version and Theirs
The First Amendment has led Americans to believe in a hallowed sense of freedom that does not exist; freedom of speech. Freedom of speech in this country has never been absolute. You can?t yell fire in a crowded theater, solicit bribes, make terrorist threats, slander another, intentionally inflict emotional distress or be obscene in public (Dickerson).
What Americans do have a right to is their opinion and …
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…to say it.
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