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Comment: So what are you just saying
So what are you just saying
is that you don't respect 13th and 14th Amendment? Should I understand it that you're for slavery, keeping corrupt officers breaking their oaths in office, that the corrupt States can imprison you without due process and completely deny you any rights? That's what you mean?
Anyvay, the Art. I. sec. 12 of Virginia Constitution now reads:
"That the freedoms of speech and of the press are among the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained except by despotic governments; that any citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; that the General Assembly shall not pass any law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, nor the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for the redress of grievances."
So clearly any law abridging free speech in Virginia is generally unconstitutional, both on state and federal level even without considering the 14th Amendment sec. 1 to the US Constitution.
It always was due to 9th Amendment (good to note written by the good Virginian James Madison) because the freedom of speech is derived from the unalienable natural law to liberty, recognized by the US Organic law called The Declaration of Independence (written, good to note, by the good Virginian Thomas Jefferson).
The 9th Amendment prohibits construction of enumerated rights for denying or disparaging other rights retained by the people - which exactly is the right to free speech - simply the States don't have the right to to abridge free speech rights regardless they can practically have such power. Example: I can have power to kill you, but it doesn't mean I always have the right to do it.
Moreover the Constitution of Virginia reads:
Section 14. Powers of General Assembly; limitations.
The authority of the General Assembly shall extend to all subjects of legislation not herein forbidden or restricted.
So clearly any "law" abridging free speech in Virginia is not a law at all, because even if there would be such "law" it is clearly not enacted under authority given to the State of Virginia and is therefore null. So no need to repeal such texts, because they're not laws at all.
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