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Sunday, March 2, 2008

Word of the Week

Fighting Words Doctrine

The First Amendment doctrine that holds that certain utterances are not constitutionally protected as free speech if they are "inherently likely to provoke a violent response from the audience" (Black's). Besides which, it's horrible manners.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Reading Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire today, it's remarkable how much times have changed. "Fascist" and "racketeer" just don't strike the modern ear as fighting words.

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