The problem with the First Amendment is that in 1964 the Warren Court blatantly - and unanimously! - misread it.The First Amendment refers to “the freedom of speech, or of the press.” Well, guess what! “The freedom of speech, or of the press” refers to freedom as it existed before the ratification of the First Amendment.
The Federalists didn’t put a bill of rights in the Constitution precisely because they wanted no controversy over rights to arise in the debate over ratification of the Constitution. The Ninth and Tenth Amendments basically, in the mind of the Federalists, should not have been understood to be necessary - but they absolutely should have been sufficient without the first eight amendments.
The Warren Court posited that liability to libel/slander suits limited “first amendment freedom.” But in reality, the first amendment did not define freedom of speech and press. It only declared that freedom of speech/press was not changed by the Constitution.
And that is why the right not to be libeled or slandered was not changed by the Constitution. As everyone understood prior to 1964 and the New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision.
The author obviously has no idea what the constitution is about.
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I’d consider reversing the order.
knew it was in there somewhere “...equality and the collective good....”