Sentences with phrase «affect free speech rights»

The case has drawn interest from more than a dozen interveners, including the Attorneys General of Ontario and Canada, as well as a number of civil rights and media organizations, who have weighed in on how such an order would affect free speech rights, international comity, and access to justice.

Supreme Court inflicts blow on credit card surcharge ban — State laws that block merchants from slapping surcharges on credit card users were dealt a blow by ruling that they affect free speech rights... (See Ban)

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James Madison, that staunch advocate of free speech, insisted that the right of people to speak and to listen is not an end in itself, but is a means of achieving «popular government,» by which he meant the democratic process whereby people have the opportunity to take a real part in the decisions which affect their lives.

They too have the right to free speech, the right to protest, the right to organize, and the right to affect change.

Many of them feel that the rules affect their right to free speech.