Chomsky on Rose p5.wmv

2003

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News & Politics

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• Chomsky
• Rose
• Interview
• Iraq
• War
• Politics

[MunaEndel]

Although the text of the Amendment prohibits only the United States Congress from enacting laws that abridge the freedom of speech, the Supreme Court used the incorporation doctrine in Gitlow v. New York (1925) to also prohibit state legislatures from enacting such laws.

[monsieurhassan]

Charlie doesn't want to hear about Vietnam, he keeps interrupting

[nocturnezero]

@Aeoen I assume he misspoke. I don't think it's outlandish to assume that someone as intelligent as him is aware of the content of the First Amendment.

[Aeoen]

The Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, so it's not in the original document. Yet when he said it's not in the Bill of Rights? I'm not really sure why he said that, unless he misspoke or simply didn't finish his point.

[blockhart]

The Supreme Court never ruled on the constitutionality of any federal law regarding the Free Speech Clause until the 20th century. The Supreme Court never ruled on the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, whose speech provisions expired in 1801.[8] The leading critics of the law, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, argued for the Acts' unconstitutionality based on the First Amendment, among other Constitutional provisions

[fromis111]

@littleflags Yeah, I was a little perplexed by that too.

[littleflags]

I know. I just don't think he should have stated that it isn't even in the constitution.

[AndroidPolitician]

@littleflags

It's in the constitution it just wasn't enforced or given it's high standards until the 1960s. Just look at the civil war or World War I or World War II or even up until the 50s and ask if freedom of speech was protected/

[littleflags]

Freedom of speech is not in the constitution? Is that not in the first amendment?

[NioushaXD]

stop interrupting!