In Boston Globe op-ed, a law professor
asks for a 'redo' of the First Amendment
Washington Examiner,
by
Becket Adams
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
12/17/2021 3:17:40 PM
Mary Anne Franks, an actual law professor at the University of Miami School, has proposed a “redo” of the First Amendment in a Boston Globe oped. (She likewise proposed a “redo” of the Second Amendment, but perhaps that's better handled separately.) The first and most important of the amendments, she writes, is “deeply flawed” in its conceptualization “of some of the most important rights of a democratic society: the freedom of expression and religion.” The amendment as it stands now, Franks adds, it’s “highly susceptible to being read in isolation from the Constitution as a whole and from its commitments
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highlander 12/17/2021 3:24:50 PM (No. 1010284)
In other words; make waves, lose your job and go to jail.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 12/17/2021 3:32:06 PM (No. 1010288)
So Ms. Franks is smarter than Jefferson, Madison and Adams and knows how the Constitution should have been written. Right.
Don't think to much of ourselves do we?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
john56 12/17/2021 3:32:40 PM (No. 1010289)
Yeah, I guess if you're woke/into controlling others, that freedom of speech, freedom to peaceably assembly, etc. can be a royal pain in the backside.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 12/17/2021 3:35:10 PM (No. 1010293)
She is attacking the very right that makes it possible for her to spout such drivel. Some people just feel they need to control others. The poor fool has outsmarted herself. Why doesn't she visit Red China? Surely she has more in common with the totalitarians than with free peoples.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
leonardo 12/17/2021 3:35:52 PM (No. 1010295)
Lemmie get this straight: a University of Miami "law professor" is MUCH smarter than the combined efforts of our founding fathers who are still some of the most intelligent Americans who ever lived, having anticipated the future, utter stupidity of law-makers who might seek to undermine Americans' rights, for their own dysfunctional reasons. Un-huh.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Troutgreen 12/17/2021 3:39:16 PM (No. 1010299)
She's too dense and without a sense of irony if she believes this sophomoric mess. Anyone with any self-awareness would realize that someday, under different circumstances, the 1st Ammendment might be the only thing to allow her to post childish scribbling in a newspaper.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
marbles 12/17/2021 3:40:05 PM (No. 1010300)
No thanks. What we have does more than suffice. It protects us from I can do it better loons like her.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
planetgeo 12/17/2021 3:40:21 PM (No. 1010301)
The Democrats and their Big Tech "speech enforcers" are already showing us what they believe the first amendment should look like...i.e., you are free to say anything you want so long as THEY approve of it first. No thanks. We like the original version better.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
SALady 12/17/2021 4:15:11 PM (No. 1010321)
Sad that a so-called "law professor" doesn't understand that the 1st and 2nd amendments to the Constitution are what make all the other amendments possible!!!
If Ms. Franks doesn't like our Constitution, there are plenty of places on this planet where she can go live where nice Communist dictatorships will give her the type of government control of her freedoms that she seems to desire!!! But I will keep what we have (no matter how hard the lie-berals and Demon-Rats are trying to destroy it). It has served us well for over 200 years!!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
qr4j 12/17/2021 4:19:24 PM (No. 1010323)
It is this professor's line of thinking that put Jesus on the cross. The Pax Romana was about submitting to the will of the governors of Rome. Jesus challenged the leaders of his day. His words did not provide for domestic tranquility or general welfare as conceived by the leaders. So they nailed Jesus to a cross.
That is what government does when people are not allowed to speak freely.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Newtsche 12/17/2021 4:29:38 PM (No. 1010327)
A hint of a Steve Schiff vibe with those eyes.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Birddog 12/17/2021 4:34:52 PM (No. 1010329)
All of her points are VERY CLEARLY enumerated and codified within the Constitution...Right there between the lines!
Where lawyers such as her "Live", writing a several hundred word Op-Ed to "Explain" to the ill-educated what a single simple sentence MEANS but doesn't actually SAY.
Whereas the "Law" itself is firmly rooted in "It Says what it means and ONLY what it means". Anything not specifically included was totally excluded. The single most illustrative example, most famously permanent precedent, was a 13th century Law pertaining to the theft of Horses. A fellow stole a horse, was caught, tried, the judges declared that the "LAW" said Horses/plural, not horse/singular...therefore By Law, he was innocent, had committed no crime. Perfectly fine to steal one at a Time.(unless/until the Law was changed)
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Quigley 12/17/2021 4:37:05 PM (No. 1010332)
The Bill of Rights was designed to protect Civilization from savages like this “professor” of controlling others.
So of course she wants to con people out of it. Like a terrorist would like to con a cop out of her gun. Or a retiree of of his retirement funds.
Go back to whatever Hell you crawled out of.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 12/17/2021 4:43:17 PM (No. 1010335)
When things don't go the Left's way, they start talking about changing things, like in this case, something that has worked very well for 232 years. It just keeps getting in their way, that pesky old thing called the Constitution. Good reply No.5!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Northcross 12/17/2021 5:15:05 PM (No. 1010350)
Hey Mary Ann, stop whining. Just rewrite the amendments you don't like, and let's see if you can get 38 states to ratify your progressive woke nonsense.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
kono 12/17/2021 5:30:22 PM (No. 1010355)
Life, beliefs, and speech are THE foundational bedrock on which a free society can stand.
"Domestic tranquility" and "general welfare" are subject to wide disparities in interpretation and non-quantifiable. As such, they form, at best, a shaky foundation. Mary Anne's facile idea opens wide the doors to dictatorship, in the name of an all-important "domestic tranquility".
Professors need to be deeper thinkers than that.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
formerNYer 12/17/2021 5:35:11 PM (No. 1010359)
More proof that liberalism is a mental disorder.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Granddanny 12/17/2021 5:47:23 PM (No. 1010368)
Whenever someone says that we need to make sure only truth gets published,. I say I will agree with your proposal if I am the one who decides what the truth is.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/17/2021 6:32:48 PM (No. 1010382)
Good luck with getting the US Constitution changed in anyway when the country is politically split down the middle.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 12/17/2021 7:00:09 PM (No. 1010397)
Any redo shoiuld make it illegal for college professors to speak in public or write ANYTHING.
How about that "redo", puke?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
TLCary 12/17/2021 7:25:17 PM (No. 1010413)
Ok, let’s do a trial run: Her article is now unconstitutional and therefore censored and she has no protection from prosecution. Let’s try that.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 12/17/2021 7:36:52 PM (No. 1010420)
We need to pull all children out of these commie training camps! Now!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Kate318 12/17/2021 7:37:44 PM (No. 1010421)
Why are these leftist loons always women “professors”? Their idiocy is setting us back decades.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/17/2021 8:37:19 PM (No. 1010446)
Sorry BWitch, we're not going to anything like that. The Bill of Rights stays right as it is.
If you and your Marxist Thugs don't like it, Pound Broken Glass!
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I saw the words Boston Globe and stopped reading.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
lakerman1 12/18/2021 12:05:19 AM (No. 1010521)
Let's call her Professor Tautology.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Kumoan 12/18/2021 10:00:07 PM (No. 1011554)
How about if she re-does herself as a non-treasonous, non-America hating citizen?
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She wants the 1st Amendment to subject to ‘domestic tranquility’ and the ‘general welfare’.