Professor Emeritus John E. Finn will present a talk titled Speech Freaks: First Amendment Fundamentals and Common Misperceptions at the Lyme Public Library on Saturday, Sept. 22, at 2 p.m.
He will elaborate on the kind of limits that can be placed on speech, why objectionable speech must be protected, the relationship of the First Amendment to other constitutional liberties and principles, and why “it is every citizen’s civic responsibility to be literate about the Constitution – to know not only what it says and means but also to know why it means what it does, to know where it is clear, where it is vague, and where it asks us to make up our own minds”
Dr. Finn holds a Ph.D. in political science from Princeton University, a J.D. from Georgetown University, and a degree in culinary arts from the French Culinary Institute. He is Professor Emeritus of Government from Wesleyan University in Middletown and is the author of several highly regarded books on constitutional law.
This program is sponsored by The Friends of the Lyme Public Library. It is free and open to the public.
For more information, call the Library at 860-434-2272 or email [email protected].