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Originally Posted by KSig RC
Shouldn't the State's Rights advocates be all up in here defending SC's right to do awkward stuff like this?
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Not if it infringes on ones free speech rights. Those are granted explicitly by the constitution in the First Ammendment. The Tenth Ammendment, as I am sure you know, is what is considered the State's Rights Ammendment. It states:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
But Freedom of Speech is Enumerated in the First Ammendment so IMO it trumps State's Rights. Others may disagree and that is why we have challenges in the courts.
BTW - I think they (nuts) are tacky and offensive and I hate them but so what.... People do have the right to be tacky and offensive.
I am, as you probably know by now, one of those who believes in State's Rights. I am a Constitutionalist first, though.