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Stripping Away First Amendment Protection, Daniel Yves Hall
Stripping Away First Amendment Protection, Daniel Yves Hall
Missouri Law Review
In Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc., the Supreme Court ruled that nude dancing was expressive activity and thus protected by the First Amendment. The Court also held, however, that it was constitutionally permissible for a state to prohibit the activity in that there was a sufficiently important governmental interest in the regulation of nude dancing. This Note will first briefly outline the legal background pertaining to First Amendment protection of nude dancing.
Reconstructing Liberty, Robin West
Reconstructing Liberty, Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
It is commonly and rightly understood in this country that our constitutional system ensures, or seeks to ensure, that individuals are accorded the greatest degree of personal, political, social, and economic liberty possible, consistent with a like amount of liberty given to others, the duty and right of the community to establish the conditions for a moral and secure collective life, and the responsibility of the state to provide for the common defense of the community against outside aggression. Our distinctive cultural and constitutional commitment to individual liberty places very real restraints on what our elected representatives can do, even …