PHIL 165 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: First Amendment To The United States Constitution, Synecdoche, Equal Protection Clause
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Many questions that you might say: scalia says the framers could not have thought that segregation by law would be banned by this clause. Same congress who passed amendment is the congress that segregated schools in the district of columbia itself. They had opportunity to do so, but didn"t. They did not expect 14th amendment to actually grant total and equal protection to everyone. Discussion of men voting, but not women voting. No to holy t(cid:396)i(cid:374)ity (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ds a(cid:396)e (cid:272)lea(cid:396) that (cid:374)o pe(cid:396)so(cid:374) is allo(cid:449)ed . So to be consistent, then 1st amendment shouldn"t apply to handwritten letters: scalia says the word speech is a synecdoche for expression (part represents whole) stands for broader category of expression, wrong. Nothing in the context that speech means broader speech. Scalia bringing own prejudices/morality to bear on words. Think it would be wrong for this clause the protect freedom of speech without others, but that would be silly.
