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The first amendment places limits on the conditions that a state government can attach to university funding?
by burrows 4y ago
The first amendment places limits on the conditions that a state government can attach to university funding?
- joshuamorton 4y agoSee South Dakota v. Dole, which holds (among other things) that federal funding cannot be granted contingently on a requirement that would otherwise violate the constitution or be "coercive". This would almost certainly apply to the states via incorporation. So while a state could choose to not fund universities at all, if it chooses to, it cannot favor certain universities based on a speech-test.
- burrows 4y agoThen you are arguing that these surveys would abridge free speech?
- ROTMetro 4y agoThese surveys are compelled speech. Freedom of speech not only means you are free to speak out, but that you can not be compelled to speak.
- joshuamorton 4y agoIf done with the intent "to encourage intellectual diversity." Yes. At the point where you have intellectuals being required to register their views with the government, you're veering heavily into red scare territory.