- The First Amendment has established limits, but these limits are well-defined and narrowly limited.
- The Supreme Court has repeatedly listed the First Amendment exceptions, which include obscenity, defamation, fraud, incitement, and speech integral to criminal conduct.
- The Supreme Court has stated that it will not create new exceptions to the First Amendment by balancing the harm of speech against its value.
- The established First Amendment exceptions must be interpreted according to existing law, and cannot be used to mean whatever one wants them to mean.
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