To: dukeman
"....ruling that the government's ban on distribution of obscenity violated the public's constitutional rights to possess such material." I still don't know WHERE in the Constitution anyone finds the "right to sell obscenity." Be obscene on your own property if you want, but you don't have a RIGHT to sell it or distribute it.....and NO I'm not a lawyer.
3 posted on
10/23/2005 7:52:39 PM PDT by
goodnesswins
(DEMS....40 yrs and $$$dollars for the War on Poverty, but NOT a $$ or minute for the WAR on Terror!)
To: goodnesswins
I still don't know WHERE in the Constitution anyone finds the "right to sell obscenity."
1st Amendment.
6 posted on
10/23/2005 7:54:48 PM PDT by
aNYCguy
To: goodnesswins
This is a dangerous argument. There are no rights listed in the Constitution to sell anything. You can possess land, but what if the government could prohibit you from selling your land? What if the government could prohibit gun manufacturers from selling guns?
The Constitution does not list every right we have. See the Ninth Amendment which refers to unenumerated rights. The Constitution was created as a limitation on government, not its citizens.
40 posted on
10/23/2005 8:41:15 PM PDT by
Time4Atlas2Shrug
(Use those bootstraps, cowboy.)
To: goodnesswins
"I still don't know WHERE in the Constitution anyone finds the "right to sell obscenity."" Same place where we have the right to sell a conservative newspaper, whether or not some community finds that to be an obscenity.
64 posted on
10/23/2005 9:00:21 PM PDT by
elfman2
(In Key Largo)
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