Journal of Free Speech Law: "Forced Unanimity and the First Amendment," by Frank LoMonte

Journal of Free Speech Law: "Forced Unanimity and the First Amendment," by Frank LoMonte

The article is here; the Introduction: If you purposefully set out to concoct a government policy guaranteed to be unconstitutional, here is how you would do it. You would impose a restraint that forbids people from expressing viewpoints on contested political issues that dissent from the government's official position. And you would justify the restraint by arguing that, if the citizenry were given the whole truth, they might think less of the …