The controversies concerning how far speech extends according to the articles free …show more content…
In the case of Keyishian V. Board of Regents. Mr. Harry Keyishian who taught at the time English at the University of New York Buffalo. Harry Keyishian had refused to sign a faith oath to confirm he wasn’t a member of the so called communist party. The outcome was in 1949 Justice William Brennan Jr. said that academic freedom is a prime concern for free speech. It doesn’t authorize laws that would cast an orthodoxy over the classroom and in Sweezy versus New Hampshire in ’57 the court blocked House of Representatives from investigating the political views Mr. Paul Sweezy who was a comrade economist at the University of Harvard. Justice Felix Frankfurter who was a former academic had found that the questioning of Mr. Sweezy was deficient. The outcome was that students and teachers must have the right to inspect to study, look to gain a better understanding or otherwise the end result will be death. Alder versus the Board of Education. Feinberg law doesn’t defy the teachers first amendments rights because when it comes to teaching they have no rights to their jobs according the courts because they work in a precise job forming the future minds of today and their employers have the right to investigate their political beliefs but Justice William Douglas in writing said that academic freedom is the freedom of speech according to the first amendment. It was the first …show more content…
The two controversial examples provided were the President of Maryland expelling one student who wrote the email to his fellow fraternity brothers stating that to forget consent and only bring hot normal looking women over, and the University of Oklahoma President expelling the two who led the singing and the rest of the students were disciplined. Both incidents are important because they ask readers the question of: Is something punishable because it’s