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This gets me all teary eyed thinking how in olden times it took a literal constitutional amendment to make something illegal.
by UncleEntity 3y ago
This gets me all teary eyed thinking how in olden times it took a literal constitutional amendment to make something illegal.
- janalsncm 3y agoIf your point is that back in the day people had more freedom than now, I think this is wrong. The US used to be a lot more strict about what you were allowed to say and do. For example Charles Schenck from the Supreme Court case which gave us the phrase “shouting fire in a crowded theater” had nothing to do with fire or movies. He was convicted for handing out antiwar pamphlets and sentenced to 30 years in prison. It wasn’t until 1969 that speech laws loosened in the US.