Mr. Erskine Halls Speech Analysis

In “A First Amendment Junkie,” Susan Jacoby argues that the First Amendment cannot be selectively applied. Susan Jacoby is an established columnist from The New York Times, and has experience working for other distinguished publications including The Washington Post. Her primary audience for this piece is New York citizens. “A First Amendment Junkie” was first published in 1978, and argued that the First Amendment is all inclusive. Jacoby’s judgement is sound, and her use of logos, pathos, and ethos further reinforce this point.

Moreover, Bok cannot be considered as a credible source simply because of his familiarity with Harvard University. Although he was educated and served as president of Harvard, one cannot deem him an expert on the topic of freedom of expression. Bok does not make a single reference to any work he has completed that would make him any more qualified, to speak about this topic, than any other person. On the other hand, Bok successfully incorporates both sides of the argument and attempted to explain why his way of going about the issue was the most beneficial overall. For example, he describes the incident as “a clear example of the conflict between our commitment to free speech and our desire to foster a community based on mutual respect.” With this, he refers to people’s desire to say what they please while keeping it appropriate for anyone to hear. The reader is convinced by his reference to both sides of the argument. Further, he goes into detail regarding why people should and should not regulate or restrict their First Amendment rights. In turn, the reader is slightly convinced of the author’s argument because he accurately conveyed the positions of whom he disagrees with.

In his speech to the nation after the death of renowned Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Dwight David Eisenhower elucidates a chance for a cease of hostilities between the United States and the Soviet Union. Eisenhower supports his elucidation with appeals to pathos through the preemptive utilization of parallelism, pronoun shifts, allusions, repetition, and juxtaposition in an effort to communicate the chance of opportunity to settle the differences with the Soviet Union before another conflict on a global scale occurs.

(pg. 200) Jefferson once said,“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.” (2.) Once you try to restrict people in what they say, you won’t be able to restrict everybody because there are too many people. Even when people are in their home, you won’t be able to control them. If you cannot control everyone, there is no point of having the rule.

The First Amendment has its flaws; it does not protect against all forms speech and articles with negative intent. In each of the cases, newspaper organizations were tried for using their freedom of press. Time, place and manner regulation treats all acts of speech the same. Under this guideline, people may socialize freely in public, but may not talk at a time or place that would cause major traffic blockage, because it’s affecting the rights of other individuals. The Court developed the time, place, and manner regulation to decide if federal jurisdictions of free speech were legal under the Constitution. In this rule, limitations on free speech are solely constitutional if the speech’s content is neutral. The right’s granted under the First

The history of the Near case began in Minnesota in 1925 with the passing of the Minnesota gag law which allowed a judge to stop the publication of any publication they found obscene or malicious. (Press, Law, Publication, and Gag) In addition to this if the material continued to be published the creator would receive a heavy fine as well as time in jail. Designed in order to combat the rampant spread of yellow journalism, which was sensational news stories centered around the conduct of politicians and local community leaders, the first application was aimed at a weekly newsletter known as the Saturday Post published in Minneapolis by the controversial J.M. Near. (West’s Encyclopedia of American Law) While containing anti-semitic, anti-labor, and anti-catholic sentiments the paper also provided accurate stories about the corruption in the city. This angered the mayor and chief of police as they were the primary features of the

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An important provision of the Bill of Rights is the protection of freedom to publish, as provided by the First Amendment. This protection applies to all kinds of publications, even those that print unpopular opinions. In most censorship cases, every attempt is made to suppress the written word after publication, not before. Minnesota passed a law in 1925 that sought to prevent newspapers, magazines, and other publications from printing obscene, malicious, scandalous and defamatory material. This law was called the Minnesota Gag Law . This law allowed private citizens and/or public prosecutors to request a court injunction to shut down any publication that was known as a public nuisance. Publishers of newspapers had to show that they had good motives for anything they were going to print before they printed it.

Many cases early on that consisted of free speech issues tended to incorporate censorship by the government. When we entered the nineteen hundreds the Supreme Court was involved with looking at cases where citizens published or spoke speech and found that they were being punished for their actions. The tests or standard of that timeframe was the bad tendency test, the bad tendency test was established to give reasoning for the government to limit the freedom of speech if the speech has a tendency to stir up or cause illegal activity like a riot. It seemed that the bad tendency test would be over shadowed by the clear and present danger test, this test gives the government

In the book Freedom for the Thought that we Hate, author Anthony Lewis takes a simply phrased law, the First Amendment and shows how complex freedom of speech really is once put into the real world of freedom, as we know it. He shows through his rejections of absolutism, strong support towards freedom restriction, and objective analysis of Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, that the United States press is unlike any other in the world.

In this week’s journal I picked an article relating to the violation of the first amendment. Members of a non profit organization called Veterans For Peace (VFP) will be apart of a rally to show that they are against New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive order that would remove state funds from any group who supports boycott in order to fight the Israeli oppression of the Palestinian people. The Veterans For Peace say that Cuomo is violating their First Amendment because he is trying to suppress the voice of the people who are fighting against the wrongful behavior of the Israeli’s against the Palestinians. On June 15th, which is today, members of VFP protested in New York to let governor Andrew Cuomo know that veterans who served this

William Lyon Mackenzie King was a dominant political figure during the era of major changes. He helped maintain Canada’s sterling reputation, unity, and steps towards independence during the rough times of the Great Depression. At the start of the Great Depression, Mackenzie King delivered the five-cent speech claiming he was not planning to support conservative run provinces during the economic recession. Many Canadians did not favour this speech, resulting in him losing the election to Bennett. This led to the conservatives overthrowing the liberals which ended with the creation of relief camps. In 1935, King got re-elected and made major changes such as decreasing federal spending, aided farmers financially, demolished relief camps and improved

Thomas Jefferson was an important person to the US when he was the president, the people was trying to talk with him about his cuote "determine never to be idle... it is wonderful how much may be done if we are doing". Jefferson was trying to talk with the people about his cuote but the governor of the state stop him saying, "DO NOT continue talking about that Thomas", Jefferson answers to him "Why? I don't need your permission". Then the governor did not say anything to him. Then over the time president Jefferson did not talk to the people governor did not say anything to him, after he left the presidency he was killed and the people was mentioning his cuote, but the governor was trying to stop the people from mentioning that cuote. Present

Considering recent news and previous court cases, the arrests of journalists at Standing Rock and the court cases Near v. Minnesota (1931) and New York Times Co. vs. United States (1971), display one of many reasons why the first amendment’s freedom of speech is prominent to democracy. Denying the law of freedom of speech destroys a democratic society. Political speech, activism, and journalism all aid in expressing political engagement. Democracy must have a politically engaged society to function well. With journalism, their freedom of speech allows the society to progress as a democracy by allowing them more awareness about their society or more broadly, their country. Without awareness, a democratic country has oblivious people that will later not express political engagement. In the article, “Arrests of Journalists at Standing

As always, there are those individuals that oppose the power to censor. There are members of society that believe in the freedom to speak publicly and to publish. This is a basic belief in the freedom of expression and is to be protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. On the eve of the bicentennial of the Bill of Rights, the first wave of a nationwide survey, comprising more than 1500 citizens was conducted. Through this survey it was found that American rate free speech as their second most precious First Amendment right and regard a free press highly in the abstract. Although there are strong cases made for and against censorship, the rising trend calling for censorship can threaten our basic rights to free expression and the right to be informed. At the center of the debate is the First Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees our right to read, speak, write, and communicate freely. The government at the state or federal level cannot