I moved to Mastodon.socialThis is a fabulous (and very long) article explaining the Supreme Court's centuries-old struggle to distinguish incendiary speech that must be protected from speech that must be outlawed.
https://texaslawreview.org/the-second-founding-and-the-first-amendment/
The tieback to the outlawing of the speech of those enslaved and the incendiary speech of the abolitionists on the grounds that their speech was dangerous is quite interesting.
I spent the morning struggling to digest it.🤓
The Second Founding and the First Amendment | Texas Law Review
Introduction The nation’s founding compromise with slavery resulted in a Constitution that proclaimed universal liberty in theory while protecting human enslavement in practice.[1] After centuries of struggle and a cataclysmic Civil War, a new constitutional order emerged: A Second Founding of the nation that sought to dismantle the legacies of slavery and turn American law […]