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Outrageous Speech and the Constitution: Thoughts on Hustler Magazine v. Falwell  

Robert C. Post ▪ Summer 1990

Democracy, as everyone knows, requires freedom of speech so that public opinion, which is sovereign, may freely be formed to direct its servant, which is the government. As a matter of constitutional history, the First Amendment began effectively to safeguard …



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