Albert Snyder Speaks to Reporters
The Court is absolutely wrong on this one. The First Amendment was never intended to protect this kind of filth. The ruling is a complete perversion of the original intent. And for those who will argue the definition of original intent, James Madison wrote,
“I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. And if that is not the guide in expounding it, there may be no security for a consistent and stable, more than for a faithful exercise of its powers. If the meaning of the text be sought in the changeable meaning of the words composing it, it is evident that the shape and attributes of the Government must partake of the changes to which the words and phrases of all living languages are constantly subject. What a metamorphosis would be produced in the code of law if all its ancient phraseology were to be taken in its modern sense. And that the language of our Constitution is already undergoing interpretations unknown to its founder, will I believe appear to all unbiased Enquirers into the history of its origin and adoption.” –James Madison, letter to Henry Lee, 1824
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