Comment on Mississippi Senator tells his constituents to 'get a life'

• CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Thou speaketh true.

  However, I thought the summary was both more in spirt of the common modern interpretation of the law and was easier for people to grasp. It also had some nice context linked in the summary which some might fund useful.

  This is the actual text of the first amendment:

  Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

  Currently, I think the first amendment is being attacked because if that “Congress shall make no law…” part. Which goes against the spirit of the law and how it has been interpreted for most of US history. However, I’m not a lawyer.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You say that, but clearly some Senators don’t fucking get it just from reading the text and need the long-winded explanation.

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