Overall, the US Constitution grants Americans exactly what the Founding Fathers demanded in their Declaration of Independence to the King of England -- "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." The Bill of Rights not only reinforces those concepts but the first ten Amendments to the Constitution spell out, in no uncertain terms, what the government CANNOT do to mess with the sacrosanct rights of citizens.
There is a familiar saying... "Your freedom of speech ends when you falsely yell 'FIRE!' in a crowded theater." ...that illustrates an extreme situation in which a states' law-making and law-enforcement authority would trump the free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment . . . READ THE REST
