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As written, this Amendment applies only to Congress, but it seems you reasonably infer that if the right of free speech is a limitation on Congress it should apply to state and local governments as well. Why wouldn’t it apply to other institutions operating in a public capacity, or operating with a public charter?

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projektfu6y ago

It has been "incorporated" to cover state and local laws by supreme court decisions, and that has not happened with places that are merely public spaces, and, in fact, the opposite has occurred. For example, you can be removed from a shopping mall if you refuse to leave when asked, and you were asked to leave because you were wearing a shirt that politely expressed a political opinion that either security or the management disagreed with. Unfortunately that is the constitution we currently have in the US.

solidsnack9000OP6y ago

Not sure why you say "Unfortunately that is the constitution we currently have in the US." after describing what is more a matter of how well we are living up to it.

A university is not a merely public place, but rather one which enjoys a charter from the state -- and numerous benefits as far as funding, taxation, access to information and research opportunities -- as an educational institution.

projektfu6y ago

I think markets on private land like malls should have many of the same freedoms we enjoy in public spaces. Of course I think universities should as well. It’s unfortunate that in the second half of the 20th century we put so much of our public life on private property.

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solidsnack9000OP6y ago

Not sure why you say "Unfortunately that is the constitution we currently have in the US." after describing what is more a matter of how well we are living up to it.

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