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Property And Speech In Summum, Joseph Blocher
Property And Speech In Summum, Joseph Blocher
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City of Pleasant Grove v. Summum is, by its own reckoning, a case about government speech under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. Even so, most commentary has justifiably focused on the decision’s implications for another part of the First Amendment: the Establishment Clause. This brief Article addresses yet another feature of Summum—what itdraws from, and says about, the relationship between speech rights and property ownership. This relationship is not only the driving force behind the majority’s opinion, but is also an important tool for understanding government speech in other cases involving government intrusion into speech markets, …
Keeping The Government's Religion Pure: Pleasant Grove City V. Summum, Christopher C. Lund
Keeping The Government's Religion Pure: Pleasant Grove City V. Summum, Christopher C. Lund
NULR Online
In January, the Supreme Court decided Pleasant Grove City v. Summum. Summum, a religious organization, sought the right to put up a permanent monument of its Seven Aphorisms—its version of the Ten Commandments—in a local city park. At the time, the park had about fifteen other monuments, including a traditional Ten Commandments display. But this was a Free Speech case, not an Establishment Clause case. The plaintiffs were not trying to use the First Amendment to have the existing Ten Commandments display removed; they were instead trying to use the First Amendment to force the city into displaying their …