Book Banning and the Constitution
What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law
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The Effects of NotTrump's Remarks on Race and Racism
In the past year and a half, there have been dozens of reports of bands, or requests to band books from public school libraries. A lot of these books represent identities and viewpoints about race, gender, sexuality and history that are not part of the main stream. So what does the constitution say about these, you know, school boards banning certain books? Well, it depends soand always is, remember, public schools are government actors, and that means they have to abide by the supreme interpretation of the first amendment.
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