The Founding Fathers did...you had to be a property owner.
Getting to the rest of your post, I realize political free speech is the purpose of the 1st Amendment, and I back it as fiercely as I do the rest of the BOR.
I'm running out of time as I have some chores to get to but in this case I'll say this is Trump sloganeering just like Cruz does with saying he is going to abolish the IRS.....congress will vote that in right after term limits and I win the Powerball lottery.
My entire point with posters who claimed Libel and slander are protected 1st amendment rights, that is simply not true.
LOL! Agreed. Good luck on the Powerball project. :)
My entire point with posters who claimed Libel and slander are protected 1st amendment rights, that is simply not true.
I wouldn't be too dogmatic about that. In the 1964 New York Times case, SCOTUS specifically limited what a purported defamation victim could do based on balancing his rights with 1st Amendment principles.
So in that sense people are free to defame one anoher, in that there is no prior restraint on defamatory speech. The First Amendment prohibits government-imposed censorship. But those who are slandered are likewise free to defend themselves. And the law will help them greatly if they are private figures who have indeed been wronged. Much less so for public figures.
Peace,
SR