Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire

Um, uh, the...

At common law, these things could be enumerated, and, uh, uh, Chaplinsky versus New Hampshire is a nice place to find that as late as 1942, the Supreme Court just said, "Well, that's out.

All that stuff's out." Libelous, the, the, uh, the indecent.

Um, uh, they don't mention blasphemous, and that, that would be, that's, that's a little bit more controversial.

I mean, this is all a question that's gonna, we'll see how it plays out.

I hope it doesn't play out badly, but, um, in times of national crisis, um, in our nation's history that, that, that, that, uh, the notion of invulnerability, invincibility, and therefore we c- we, we can endorse, in fact call this constitutional right, um, was, was just not something that was possible.

He- hence Chaplinsky is 1942.

That is to say, when Americ- it's the same year in which the United States was feeling the most vulnerable.