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Roy S. Moore's Article 'It Was 40 Years Ago'

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1. Summary: Roy S. Moore is a republican senate nominee for the state of Alabama. Previous to becoming this nominee, he was both a district attorney and the chief justice of the state supreme court. Recently The Washington Post published an article stating that Moore had approached a 14- year-old, eventually kissing her, undressing her, touching her over her bra and underpants, and guiding her to touch him over his underwear (Bromwich, 2017). After the first woman spoke out about Moore, three other women came forward with similar stories. The article, “Alabama Republicans Defend Roy Moore: ‘It Was 40 Years Ago’ goes over how people of the state are attempting to defend Moore, saying he did nothing “immoral or illegal”. Others went on to say he was not guilty of “forcible rape” (Bromwich).
2. Application: The Article, “Alabama Republicans Defend Roy Moore: ‘It Was 40 Years Ago’” by Jonah Engel Bromwich, is a textbook example of the civil liberty of the First Amendment: Freedoms of Speech and the Press. The U.S Congress has accorded constitutional protection to a number of aspects of speech and the press, even though the content of such expression may be objectionable to some citizens or the government (O’Connor & Sabato, 2017). The accusations that are coming out about Moore are undoubtedly …show more content…

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution mandates that “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech or of the press” (O’Connor & Sabato, 2017). That being said, the women who are speaking out about Moore have the same right to do so as both the press, who are letting the world know about this entire situation, and Roy Moore or anyone else, who is trying to say events that happened so long ago should not be held against

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