No one can trump the free speech provision of our Constitution without ratification.
With a few exceptions, the free speech provisions of the First Amendment bar federal, state, and local governments from directly censoring the Internet.
The complaint was not about the words between the covers, which are clearly protected by the free speech provisions of the First Amendment.
He has been particularly scornful of attempts to pass an amendment that would permit making it illegal to burn the American flag, something now protected by the free speech provision of the Constitution.
The offence of blasphemous libel is believed by some to be contrary to the freedom of speech provisions in the Convention.
The prohibition of genocide advocacy (s. 318) and the anti-hate speech provision of the Criminal Code (s. 319) are unaffected by this ruling and remain in force.
It reopened after a judge ruled that the play was protected by the free speech provisions of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
He added, "If stock prices go down, are we suspending the free speech provisions of the U.S. Constitution for market skeptics and short sellers?"
While acknowledging that the Constitution's freedom of speech provisions do not relate to private industry as they do to governmental action, Orza said: "Speech which harms the business is subject to discipline.
The California case was dismissed before coming to trial when a court ruled that song lyrics were protected by the free speech provisions of the First Amendment.