What Are The Importance Of Freedom Of Speech
Unfortunately, that is not the case. There are limitations on our right; pornography, obscenities, and criticizing our government or in other words, treason. Who makes these limitations? Since we have the right to free speech cannot we govern ourselves? The Supreme Court does not think so. According to the book, Keeping the Republic by Christina Barbour; “The history of freedom of speech cases is a history of the Court’s devising tests for itself to determine if certain speech should be protected or could be legitimately outlawed” (Keeping the Republic, Barbour,