ESSAY WRITING

Miss Hélène EVRARD

SUBJECT: Should there be limits to freedom of speech?

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Table Of Contents

Table Of Contents ................................................................................................ 2

Introduction .......................................................................................................... 3

I. Free Speech: A Democratic Value ............................................................ 4

A Definition ................................................................................................ 4

B A Fundamental Protected Freedom ...................................................... 5

II. Free Speech: A Limited Value ................................................................... 6

A A Justified Limitation ............................................................................. 6

B Two Adversarial Principles of Delimitation ......................................... 8

Conclusion .......................................................................................................... 13

Bibliography ....................................................................................................... 14

Web Sites ............................................................................................................ 14

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Introduction
« If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear. » Georges Orwell

The notion of free speech is sensitive and controversial since it forms the heart of a complicated web composed by several rights and liberties. A striking event is the publication in 2006 of Danish cartoons1 of the Prophet Muhammad. The Muslim community considered it very unpleasant leading to an outrage against it. The protests lead to an international debate due to the re-publication of the cartoons across the world. In United Kingdom, the British Medias judged it was better not to publish