Word: agrument
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...there are two problems with the free speech agrument. Speech is not absolutely protected, and the man who, as in Justice Holmes' famous example, shouts fire in a crowded theatre is liable to prosecution. Spock and the four others are accused of interfering with the operation of the Selective Service System by verbally counselling young men to defy its regulations, and if the government can prove that their speech was the direct cause of someone's lawbreaking, they may well be convicted...
...interposition agrument is not novel. Madison and Jefferson used it in framing the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions which condemned the Alen and Sedition Acts of 1798 as unconstitutional. It was their contention that the federal government was created by the states to serves as their agent. They reasoned that state legislatures may declare federal laws unconstitutional. From that time, though the South has recognized both the idea of the Constitution as the supreme law of the land and of the Supreme Court as the agent to preserve that law, it has refused to combine two concepts and allow the high...
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