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Hate Speech:
A Call to Constitutional Arms

David Kennedy

Professor. Moyer-Guse
Comm. 170
2 June 2006

The first Amendment, as written by the founders of the constitution, uses plain language that is explicitly clear. The first Amendment does not say Congress shall not make some law, but rather speaks in absolutes. Nonetheless, over time, the courts have curtailed the meaning of protection granted to speech through several cases regarding questionable speech. As time has progressed, the court has commonly sided with the speaker of the questionable speech under the notion of staying in line with the fundamental rights established in the first Amendment. On the topic of hate speech, the court has generally come to the consensus that such speech is granted constitutional protection. Nonetheless, there still remains some gray area as to the scope of protection allotted to hate speech. Despite the hatred that can be conveyed to others through hate speech, such expression......

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