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To: A Strict Constructionist
Why do they always bring out this argument for restricting the BOR.

Shall I presume that by BOR you mean "Bill of Rights"?

As I understand the history, this quote about "You can’t falsely scream fire.” comes from the "Great Dissenter", Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. writing for a unanimous Supreme Court in 1919 for the case of Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47, a WW1 espionage & free speech case.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. [...] The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.

Note the referral to a restricted Congress implicit in the US Constitution. Paging Professor Obama, please pick up the CONSTITUTION white phone.

13 posted on 04/20/2012 3:32:13 PM PDT by SES1066 (Government is NOT the reason for my existance!)
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To: SES1066
Wonder what Chuckie going to say when ObamaCare is struck down?

I think the dems are scared to death all the companies are going to outspend Obama

14 posted on 04/20/2012 3:35:35 PM PDT by scooby321 (h tones)
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