For as long as history can tell, man has always made law. Another equally dependable observation may be that that those laws are rarely concrete, for where rules and laws exist, exceptions accompany them. Regarding the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, this notion is plainly evident.

Freedom of Speech is a right recognized by America’s founding fathers as an essential element to our free society; however, there exists no free, democratic government, including ours, that will guarantee true, absolute, freedom of speech. Exceptions have been made to the First Amendment which exclude certain types of speech from its protection