"Burning the flag is not speech, it's conduct of the most offensive kind, " said Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, (R-Mississippi).
Amy Adler, a New York University law professor, said the key to legally curbing the performers is to make sure restrictions are aimed at barring harassment and fraud, not speech.
While the Supreme Court upheld the conviction for resisting arrest, the part of Wilson's sentence for disorderly conduct was stricken because the vague statute reached both protected and not protected speech and as a result could not legally be upheld.
That constitutional provision tolerates some but not all speech and has another important limitation.
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"In America, money does not equal speech, " McConnell said on the Senate floor Tuesday.
This research helped give rise to a theory that human language has its roots not in speech, but in hand gestures.
And, second, that only their conduct was being regulated, not their speech.
This was not the speech of a shadow chancellor who expected to be directing the nation's financial affairs in a few months' time.
We have a free speech guarantee in our constitution, not an equal speech guarantee.
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The Second Circuit agreed with Caronia and became the first court in the nation to hold that truthful and non-misleading off-label promotional speech is constitutionally protected under the First Amendment and, as a corollary, that off-label promotional speech would not constitute a criminal offense unless the speech was false or misleading.
We obviously -- the themes of this speech that I just discussed reflect not just what the speech he gave in Kansas, but in many ways the principles that President Obama has brought to public service since he began his career in public service.
The early evidence suggests that the speech was not gripping the public in the way that the UN speech of Adlai Stevenson gripped the nation 40 years ago during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when Mr Kennedy's older brother was president.
On Thursday, Vice-President Joe Biden gave a speech not far from Newtown, Connecticut, where last year's deadly school shooting took place.
Although he does not allow free speech within Malaysia, his right to say what he thinks should nevertheless be defended outside it.
In a speech not long ago he said that in 80 countries people's incomes were lower than they were ten years earlier.
But invoking libel or defamation requires that the speech not be true.
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"This is not freedom of speech, this is an attack on humanity, (an) attack on religions, and (an) attack on human rights, " he said.
This is not an Afghanistan speech, but he will mention that.
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Although the White House said Mr Obama's address was not a campaign speech, it follows critical remarks about his foreign policy from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Another speaker, Professor Urs Niggli, director of the Swiss Research Institute for Organic Agriculture, said he was disappointed that Ms Spelman did not use her speech to set out the government's goals for organic farming.
Allowing people to threaten the life of a president, particularly during time of war, is not protecting free speech as much as it is dangerously close to treason as it is defined in Article III of the Constitution.
While her earlier speech did not include the racial and ethnic references that appeared in her 2001 speech, it did include references to gender and the idea that a female judge would reach a "better" conclusion than a male because of her life experience.
But they do not call the authors of the posts names and they do not use rude speech, particularly when rude speech is written in the course of criticizing the author of the post or any of the people who have come to comment on the post.
Like, what they had to rely on was the corporate media sort of digesting it on the evening news, putting headlines on the front page of the paper, and we've had to rely on how the media has digested not just this speech, but the entire race, to form our opinions.
The American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed the lawsuit against Wayne County, the Wayne County Sheriff, and two Wayne County Deputy Chiefs for refusing to protect the Christians from the attack and threatening to arrest the Christians for disorderly conduct if they did not halt their speech activity and immediately leave the festival area.
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