... a right to their views but that does not mean publishers and bookstores must promote them. It is censorship if books are seized and burned; it is not censorship if books are tossed into the trash because their authors mock the liberty that made the books possible. Indeed, expressing revulsion at the sight of a Kingsolver book is in itself a form of protected speech" (Easterbrook ... auditorium for performances of the musical "Hair" (Linder 1 I). Although the auditorium had been rented for a wide variety of expressive activities prior to Southeastern's application, Chattanooga city offic...

• Word Count: 1987
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... incorporated in the liberty protected from state action by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment"#. The appellant Roth ran a business, based in New York, which published and sold books, photographs and magazines. In the process of advertising through circulars, Roth was charged with "mailing obscene circulars and advertising, in violation of the federal obscenity statute"#. Similarly, the appellant ... Alberts, ran a mail-order business based in Los Angeles and was charged with "lewdly keeping for sale obscene and indecent books, and with writing, composing and publishing a...

• Word Count: 3509
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... a set of rules to protect us against our government from having too much power over each individual. The rights that we are proved with are our most basic fundamental law. Citing back to Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965, when the courts ruled that birth control was an implied right to privacy of marital association from: 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 9th amendments ... reading obscene material in the privacy of ones' home: "If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch."" ...

• Word Count: 1942
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate