Speech Codes on Campus
[For the U.S. only] The founding fathers of this country included the freedom of speech as a fundamental right in the Constitution... For the past two decades, however, this nation’s universities have sought to abridge this right by installing so-called ‘speech codes’ on their campuses. These verbal indemnifies have provoked a heated debate, with the center of the disagreement lying with the conflict between civil rights and civil liberties: do people retain the right to free speech when they use it to offend and put down others?
