The US has the first amendment, which prevents the government from making any law that restricts freedom of speech; Scandinavian countries also have liberal free speech rules.
In doing so, conservative Christian legal organizations were formed, and pro-life groups marshaled liberal free speech precedents established by antiwar and anti-government protesters.
The highly unusual trial, in a district court in Luton, a town with a large Muslim population 30 miles north of London, was seen by the defendants' supporters as a rare test of Britain's liberal free speech laws.
Their efforts underscored how difficult it can be for a publisher to enforce a fixed hour of publication analogous to the opening night of a movie, especially under the relatively liberal free speech laws of the United States.
"The most liberal speech Barack Obama has ever given," one TV anchor says in the video.
Lord Ashdown said the address had defined the liberal way, adding: "This was an absolutely classical liberal speech.
At the same time, China has waged its harshest crackdown on liberal speech in years: hundreds of Chinese have been detained, imprisoned, beaten, interrogated or put under house arrest.
Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, might have been right when he snorted, in the blur of televised commentary that followed, that it was the most liberal speech by a president to Congress since Lyndon B. Johnson's administration.
Tellingly, the court has accepted far more cases involving challenges to regulations of conservative speech than previous courts, with a win rate of 69percentt, compared with 21percentt for cases involving liberal speech.
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