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brought to you by picketing a pastime for those feeling

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fenced in All right in which case did the supreme

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court ruled that picketing was protected under the first amendment

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and hear the potential answers right here All right well

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we've all had times when we wanted to take to

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the streets and tell the world how we felt when

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we've been wrong We're looking atyou pumpkin spice lattes days

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now that right to picket which means to demonstrate outside

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of a government office private company or any organisation we

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feel like yelling at is protected in the constitution line

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up and let's get into the question Did the supreme

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court ruled that picketing was protected under the first amendment

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in the shank us Well shank the u s created

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that clear and present danger rule and no we're not

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talking about harrison ford Charles shank was a member of

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the socialist party who oversaw the printing and mailing of

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leaflets urging men not to submit for the draft during

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world war ll the government arrested shank in violation of

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the espionage act which congress had passed in order to

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curb speech that would endanger the war effort well eventually

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shank appeal this case all the way to the supreme

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court claiming that the conviction flew in the face of

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the first amendment's guarantee of free speech The supreme court

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however agreed with his arrest saying that shanks actions presented

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a clear and present danger for the united states in

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a time of war I wouldn't go ahead and bambi

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and keep shank in jail is a supreme court deal

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with picketing in see john versus oregon Well dejong versus

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oregon did have to do with freedom of assembly but

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it wasn't about picking a pack of pickled picketers Oregon

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police arrested dirk did yang for speaking out against jail

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conditions at a meeting held by the communist party The

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supreme court however ruled that states also had to respect

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our individual right to peaceably gather well avengers against see

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assembled was the supreme court all over the picketing case

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in miller v california Well miller v california was a

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little more risque since it involved the court defining what

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exactly counted as pornography marvin miller conducted a mass mailing

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campaign See those leaflets are a tricky business for the

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sale of adult content And he was arrested for the

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distribution of obscene material Well the supreme court agreed with

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the california police saying that obscene materials in this case

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pornographic ones did not fall under the protection of free

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speech and there's also this sense that our children and

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our people don't want to see pornography shouldn't be forced

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to see it that we can rule out d too

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What about e hazel would be cool Meyer stop the

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presses Literally in hazel would ve kohlmeier the supreme court

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ruled that student newspapers were a classroom activity not a

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forum for public expression That means they were in fact

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subject to censorship by school administrators over potentially controversial articles

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So we subject eat a prior review That means the

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supreme court ruled picketing to be protected under the first

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amendment in a thornhill v alabama Thornhill was an important

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expansion of the first amendment right to free assembly Originally

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the right to assemble was believed tto only apply to

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protest against the government That's why byron thornhill was arrested

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for picketing is private employer during a strike Well the

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supreme court however held that union picket lines even if

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directed against private companies Counted as protected assemblies So is

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the right answer By protecting the right to picket the

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supreme court opened the floodgates for all kinds of peaceful

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protest which really put a thorn in the alabama's hillsides

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