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I will post the answers and explanation after you take the quiz which should take about 70 seconds or less
1 and 4 are False
The rest are true
I will elaborate in another comment with my sources
From John Hasnas:
Unless your responses were:
- False,
- True,
- True,
- False,
- True,
- True,
- True,
You chose to interpret at least one of the words 'Congress', 'no', 'law', 'speech', and 'press' in what can only be described as something other than its ordinary sense.
Why did you do this?
Were your responses based on the plain meaning of the words or on certain normative beliefs you hold about the extent to which the Federal government should be allowed to interfere with citizens' expressive activities? Were your responses objective and neutral or were they influenced by your politics?
I chose this portion of the First Amendment for my example because it contains the clearest, most definite legal language I am aware of. If a provision as clearly drafted as this may be subjected to political interpretation, what legal provision may not be?
But this explains why the legal system cannot be reformed to consist of a body of definite rules yielding unique, objectively verifiable resolutions of cases. What a legal rule means is always determined by the political assumptions of the person applying it.
Read section 6 in the PDF linked above...
Hasnas:
If your response to question 1 was "True," you chose to interpret the word "no" as used in the First Amendment to mean "some."
If your response to question 2 was "False," you chose to interpret the word "Congress" to refer to the President of the United States and the word "law" to refer to an executive order.
If your response to question 3 was "False," you chose to interpret the words "speech" and "press" to refer to the exhibition of photographs and paintings.
If your response to question 4 was "True," you have underscored your belief that the word "no" really means "some."
If your response to question 5 was "False," you chose to interpret the words "speech" and "press" to refer to dancing to rock and roll music.
If your response to question 6 was "False," you chose to interpret the word "Congress" to refer to the Internal Revenue Service and the word "law" to refer to an IRS regulation.
If your response to question 7 was "False," you chose to interpret the words "speech" and "press" to refer to the act of burning a flag.
The rule of law is a myth similar to Judaism.
There are no laws, only lawyers and judges.
There are no laws in Judaism, only rabbis and technicalities
@siggy47, thanks for indulging me and humoring me
I need a lawyer to take this stupid quiz
@remindme in 24 hours