The Importance Of Cross-Burning

There are somewhat restrictions on the kinds of advice be given? On that note, should the mayor on the political consequences be personal if he assumes leadership of the income tax campaign? Additionally, it may be the time they were starting to arrive a decision to raise probably taxes or cut services more drastically.

ACLA opposed that they could not be convicted for true threats under FACE because of the First Amendment. They claimed that their speech could not be classified as unprotected speech because of the actions that others have independently taken. The courts said that ACLA’s speech was not protected under the First Amendment. Which left ACLA liable for true threat to intimidate under FACE.

The purpose of this paper is to comprehensively compare and contrast the implementation of two types of mayor-council government systems which are that of the weak-mayor type of the mayor council system and the strong-mayor type of the mayor council system. The premise of the analysis which has been conducted in this paper is based upon assessing the local governments of two cities within the United States – Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Minneapolis, Minnesota which follow the adoption of a strong-mayor system and weak-mayor system respectively.

During the city commission meeting votes were taken. The voting would occur verbally. All those in favor would have to say the word “I” right after they asked if they were in favor. It occurred often during the whole meeting. Most of the time there was one of the council members approving and second as well and they would move on to another subject right after they finished voting. There was one time where one of the commissioners neglected himself from saying any comments or being involved with the issue in any type of way. I did not understand what his reasons were for this

as watchdogs over public affairs and government. Seek to ensure that the public’s business is conducted in the open, and that public records are open to all.” Laurens was only doing her job by printing the article. (2.)If I look at the situation in black and white and forget what I know about ethics, I do agree with the mayor. Technically she did provide fair coverage of both sides, she asked the councilman for a responds regarding the press conference, which he refused only providing a few words. In Laurens’s article she even printed what he briefly said involving the controversy. To avoid this issue Laurens should have relied on the Potter Box, which is an ethical decision-making model broken up into four steps. Before even writing the article

In Snyder v. Phelps, dissenting Justice Samuel Alito likened the protests of the Westboro Baptist Church members to fighting words and of a personal character, and thus not protected speech. The majority disagreed and stated that the protester's speech was not personal but public, and that local laws which can shield funeral attendees from protesters are adequate for protecting those in times of emotional

The Mayor’s decision to accept these gifts was ethical because anyone who is receiving gifts would automatically accept and wouldn’t even think twice about accepting them. But I believe it is wrong for the Mayor to accept gifts from organizations that have not business with them because it might cause controversial between them if they don’t

“At what point do we take personal attacks, and permit those, as opposed to -- I fully accept you’re entitled, in some circumstances, to speak about any political issue you want. But where is the line between doing that, and creating hardship for an individual?” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor. In the case of Snyder V. Phelps, Two very passionate sides debated just that. The Snyder family accused Phelps, or Westboro, of the tort claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress, after Westboro picketed Phelps’ son’s funeral. Westboro disputed this, claiming their protests were protected under The First Amendment.

In the following essay, Charles R. Lawrence encompasses a number of reasons that racist speech should not be protected by the First Amendment. In this document, he exhibits his views on the subject and what he feels the society should confront these problems. In this well- written article, he provides strong evidence to prove his point and to allow the reader to see all aspects of the issue.

What I find to be very interesting about the first amendment is that because we have freedom of speech the Klu Klux Klan also known as the KKK are able to hold meetings and speeches that they have against the black communities. I agree that people here in the United States of America should be able to have freedom of speech but do I agree that that KKK should be able to hold hate marches and speeches? Will this is a very difficult question for me to answer because I am an African American, so my first answer is to say no, but when I use my critical thinking that I have learned in this class I say yes they should be able to hold Hate speech. I look back to the famous speech in the black communities that were held to lead our way to freedom such as the “I Have a dream Speech” by martin Luther King or the “Million Man March “ was held by Minster Farrakhan there were a lot of people that didn’t believe in the movement that was happening during that time period but if it wasn’t for the first amendment in the Bill of Rights Marches and Speeches would have never been able to

As hate crimes have risen in number during the past five years; many state governments have attempted to prevent such crimes by passing laws called bias laws. These laws make a crime that is motivated by hatred based on the victim’s race, religion, ethnic background, or sexual orientation a more serious crime than such an act would ordinarily be. Many people believe that these laws violate the criminal’s freedom of speech. Many hate group members say that freedom of speech is the right to say or write or publish one’s thoughts, or to express one’s self, they also say that this right is guaranteed to all Americans. But people and organizations who are against these hate groups ask themselves if the first amendment include and protect all form of expression, even those that ugly or hurtful like the burning crosses. The Supreme Court Justices have decided that some kinds of speech are not protected by the Constitution,

I was very surprised at how many people actually attended the city hall meeting. Normally when you think of government, you assume that the people are less interested in attending meetings. This was especially what I thought would happen given the average amount of people who vote for local laws and political offices. Instead, I was surprised to see many people attending. While most of those who attended were older, there were some younger people as well. In general, the attendees where men between the ages of 40 and 70. Some were dressed professionally for the meeting, while others were obviously arriving straight from work and were dressed in work clothes. There were even a few construction workers present who were still in their day clothes. Most of the women who were present were older. My best guess is that the younger women stay at home with their children while their husbands attend the meeting. There were no children present, which was expected given that city council meetings are meant for adults.

A reoccurring conflict throughout this case assessment is the mayor’s ignorance to the policies that he is

Selectman Katharine Martin-Savage made the motion, she said, “Doing away with the parking down town is just not acceptable. Without

But in light of recent events such as the rise in prominence of the alt-right movement and white nationalist protests occurring on college campuses, we must review how certain rights and privileges granted by our constitution are misused by groups that perpetuate hate, violence, and fear, and how public universities contribute to the promulgation of hate speech. In this paper, I will argue that college campuses have the right to put limitations on what invited speakers are allowed to say in schools, firstly because certain speakers hold views that may perpetuate hate and incite others to violence, and secondly because their words are especially