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To: Olog-hai
The point being, re. your highlighted "These rights shall find their limits...", that there are fundamentally different legal systems throughout the world. (Common Law, Napoleonic Law, Germanic Law,...) Roughly speaking, Common Law relies to an extent on case law, while e.g. Germanic Law relies mostly on codified law, so the limitations are expressly set out in that.

There is no place on earth where there is Free Speech without any limitations whatsoever, including the US. The limitations there are just "hidden" in case law.

Notable case in point, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s opinion in the United States Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States in 1919, which held that the defendant's speech in opposition to the draft during World War I was not protected free speech under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. - a.k.a. the "shouting FIRE in a crowded theater" case. And the list goes on... libel, slander,...you get the idea...

FYI:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Map_of_the_Legal_systems_of_the_world_%28en%29.png

14 posted on 11/05/2018 2:41:26 PM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Moltke

There’s never a time when natural rights are not under attack. Putting it in writing, however, solidifies a top-down attack thereupon by the government, particularly by allowing “the provisions of general laws” to nullify them plus rendering the rights in “positive” language.


15 posted on 11/05/2018 3:11:34 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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