Free Speech Questions
There's more than one right answer.
- Should the right to speech be absolute?
- Can people be trusted to handle an unlimited range of information and ideas without any government intervention?
- If not, where should the lines be drawn?
- Should political speech be more rigorously protected than other forms of expression?
- Have new technologies changed the way any of these questions should be answered?
- Should students possess the same First Amendment rights as adults?
- Is learning best advanced by restricting or not restricting student speech?
- Have the courts provided schools and students with a useful set of guidelines for identifying the limits of student speech rights?
- Is the "clear and present danger test" a useful tool in sorting out protected from unprotected speech?
- Do you agree with the decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio?
- Is the "bad tendency test" a useful and/or legitimate tool in sorting out protected from unprotected speech?
- Should pornography be protected?
- Is the Court's distinction between private possession and commercial production and distribution legitimate?
- Is the definition of obscenity provided by the Miller decision appropriate? Does this definition provide a workable tool for judges and juries?