17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997 21:15:42 -0700, Tim May wrote:
If the state-as-employer insists that English be spoken in offices, is this an infringement of First Amendment rights in even remotely the same way as if the state-as-sovereign illegalized the speaking of Portugese in Texas (or anyplace else that was not a state-as-employer office)?
But you seem to have gone beyond this to advocate that the State be able -- without 1A restrictions -- to forbid the speaking of Portuguese anywhere on public property, even by private citizens. Paul