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September/October Quality Cities News Briefs

Source: Mandy Stark
Has your city recently started a new program, solved a problem or done something great? If so, let Mandy Stark at the League know! She is compiling News Briefs for the September/October issue of Quality Cities, and wants to include photos and information about the great things League members are doing. E-mail her at mstark@flcities.com or call (850) 701-3638 to submit your innovative solutions, successful programs or moments of pride.

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A Right Does Not Make Right
Source: Scott Paine
Irresponsible freedom

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once famously observed that “[t]he most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater, and causing a panic. It does not even protect a man from an injunction against uttering words that may have all the effect of force.” (Schenck vs. United States – 249 U.S. 47 – 1919) Justice Holmes was not denying the First Amendment (though one certainly can question the application of the principle he articulated to the case he helped decide); he was affirming that even our most fundamental freedoms have their necessary limits.

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