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Article: Law schools & the military: don't ask, don't tell, don't recruit.(Short Takes)
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- January 14, 2005
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The First Amendment's protection of "freedom of speech" is about more than just speech. Courts and commentators agree, for example, that the freedom to speak includes a freedom not to speak, and that just as the government may not punish us for professing our love of country, it may not require us to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. In addition, the Constitution protects not only the sermons of a solitary activist, standing on a corner soapbox. It safeguards also our right to amplify and enrich our individual expression by associating with others, and thereby constrains government's power to revise or otherwise interfere with the rights of groups to express collective ...