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1、CollegeofWilliam&MaryLawSchoolScholarshipRepositoryFacultyPublicationsFacultyandDeans1982AGraphicReviewoftheFreeSpeechClauseWilliamW.VanAlstyneWilliam&MaryLawSchoolRepositoryCitationVanAlstyne,WilliamW.,"AGraphicReviewoftheFreeSpeechClause"(1982).FacultyPublications.Paper731.http://scholarshi
2、p.law.wm.edu/facpubs/731Copyrightc1982bytheauthors.ThisarticleisbroughttoyoubytheWilliam&MaryLawSchoolScholarshipRepository.http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubsAGraphicReviewoftheFreeSpeechClauseWilliamVanAlstynetAnumberofyearsago,ProfessorsTussmanandtenBroekpub-lishedinthisReviewanexcellent
3、analysisoftheequalprotectionclause.'UsingVenndiagrams,theysoughttodisaggregatevariouswaysoflookingatequalprotectionclaimsinordertoaidourunder-standingofwhatthatclausemightmean.Theirarticlewasnotthefirstwordeverpublishedontheequalprotectionclause,ofcourse,andcer-tainlyitwasnotmeanttobethelast.
4、Butitdidimposeanextremelyhelpfulclarityonwhatwaseventhenamurky,undisciplinedsubject,anditfilledagapintheunrulyprofessionalliterature.Threedecadeslater,studentsofconstitutionallawstillfindTussman-tenBroekgraph-icsausefulstartingplace.Asimilarpresentationofthefreespeechclauseisthemainobjectofth
5、isArticle.LiketheTussman-tenBroekpiece,itdisaggregatesajumbleofrivaljudicialdoctrinesthatpurporttodefineacorrectwayofframingquestionsarisingunderthefreespeechclause.Myaimistodeterminewhatisatstakeamongcontendinginterpretations,andtoseewhygreatimportancetendstobeattachedtosuchmatters.Writtenpr
6、incipallyforstudents,thisArticle,too,proceedsthroughaseriesofgraphicdepictions,eachdesignedtoreflectadistinctimpressionorin-terpretationofthefreespeechclause.Tobesure,thedifferentcon-structionsoftheclausereflectedinthesegraphicsarenotexhaustive.2Theydoembrace,however,nearlyallthebasicinterpre
7、tationsthathavecompetedmoststronglyforjudicialfavorduringthepastcenturyofSupremeCourtadjudications.TheArticlebeginswiththesimple,tPerkinsProfessorofLaw,DukeUniversitySchoolofLaw.1.Tussman&tenBroek,TheEqualProtectionoftheLaws,37CALIF.L.REV.341
