Thanks for the links - too bad the one about the Flag "Desecration" Amendment one because it seems to be broken (I've always wondered about that one myself...).
I think the basis for our constitution is a very pragmatist one while America's is strongly influenced by philosophical ideas (Hume, Locke, etc.). In an ever wider sense there's the "role model" of the Catholic Church, who has a centuries-old tradition of preaching one thing and practicing something completely different if their power is endangered... our Emperors adopted pretty much the same doublethink, and in many respects our modern state isn't much better (there's many laws that are just not enforced, or leave large loopholes... and the result, in fact, is a fairly liberal state).
Pornography discussions, for example (the issue has been dead for decades, but anyway) always centered on the concept of "decency", never on free speech, or freedom of artistic expression. The last time a song got actually "banned" from the radio was Frank Zappa's "Bobby Brown" - after two months (took them some time to get the lyrics *lol), but that was the radio stations autonomous decision (this was in the times of the state broadcasting monopoly - strange country here *g)...
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I think the basis for our constitution is a very pragmatist one while America's is strongly influenced by philosophical ideas (Hume, Locke, etc.). In an ever wider sense there's the "role model" of the Catholic Church, who has a centuries-old tradition of preaching one thing and practicing something completely different if their power is endangered... our Emperors adopted pretty much the same doublethink, and in many respects our modern state isn't much better (there's many laws that are just not enforced, or leave large loopholes... and the result, in fact, is a fairly liberal state).
Pornography discussions, for example (the issue has been dead for decades, but anyway) always centered on the concept of "decency", never on free speech, or freedom of artistic expression. The last time a song got actually "banned" from the radio was Frank Zappa's "Bobby Brown" - after two months (took them some time to get the lyrics *lol), but that was the radio stations autonomous decision (this was in the times of the state broadcasting monopoly - strange country here *g)...