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The First Amendment, From sedition to wedding cakes?, James Foster

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The First Amendment, From sedition to wedding cakes?, James Foster
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The First Amendment
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Online presentation by Deschutes Public Library on February 3, 2021
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James Foster
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DPL YouTube, February 2021
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From sedition to wedding cakes?
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What are we to make of these 10 stark words: "Congress shall make no law . . . prohibiting the freedom of speech"? This presentation begins with distinguishing between the written Constitution (capital C), our cultural constitution (lower case c), and the politics of constitutionalism. Narrowing our focus, first, to "seditious speech," then "creative speech," James Foster traces how constitutionalism shaped the Constitution's First Amendment absolutist blackletter language from the second decade of the Twentieth Century (1919), until 1969, and currently, 6 January 2021. We also will see how baking has become protected speech. Ultimately, we will affirm that the First Amendment's apparently unambiguous wording both requires interpretation and invites debate. Our discussion will take us from insurrection to confections--and back again
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