Constitutional Context
Constitutional Context
Osher Institute at SDSU
Episode 15 – America’s Free-Speech Exceptionalism
5 minutes Posted Aug 29, 2017 at 8:54 pm.
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The recent tragedy in Charlottesville – when compared to a different event occurring at the same time in a foreign land – provides an especially graphic illustration of how U.S. free-speech doctrines differ from the approaches of other major democratic nations. As Americans are painfully aware, on August 12th, 2017 neo-Nazis and white supremacists gathered […]