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Civil Liberties

Viva_Daddy

(785 posts) Sat Feb 18, 2012, 03:41 PM Feb 2012

I am not an expert on the Constitution or a lawyer, but... [View all]

it seems to me that the idea that "money is speech" is unconstitutional because supposedly "all men are created equal" and the 14th Amendment says that everyone should have "equal protection under the law". If money is speech, then those who have more money have more freedom of speech than those who have less. Of course, the fact that many rich people already own most of the newspapers and radio and tv stations already distorts the "equal" part of this idea.

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I am not an expert on the Constitution or a lawyer, but... [View all] Viva_Daddy Feb 2012 OP

Freedom of the press extends to people who own one jberryhill Feb 2012 #1

That was part of the Declaration of Independence, which led the way to the writing of the pacalo Feb 2012 #2

Actually, it led to the writing of the Articles of Confederation. n/t ColesCountyDem Feb 2012 #3

Which led to the writing of the Constitution, which provided laws that would prevent the type of pacalo Feb 2012 #4