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Practice question: Protected and Unprotected Speech

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Practice question

Explain why freedom of expression may protect both a citizen's spoken policy argument and a silent symbolic protest. Does recognizing communicative conduct prevent government from regulating every noncommunicative effect of that conduct?

Legal references

  • Diocese of Bacolod v. COMELEC, G.R. No. 205728, January 21, 2015, main decision, political and symbolic expression: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2015/jan2015/gr_205728_2015.html

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