Dear First Amendment Expert :

I am now reading your complete book. 

1.  The Constitution is not a law; it is a compact, a solemn agreement between the citizenry as to which governing (lawmaking) powers will be delegated (not relegated) to the governmental institution of their creation, and the political and very human rights zealously retained.  It is not unlike the Mayflower Compact, which see.   FDR said it is not a lawyer's contract. 

2.  There's not a word or phrase in the Constitution and its Bill of Rights that remotely pertains to conduct and behavior between and among citizens.  Neither is there anything to suggest this concern in all the discussions leading to adoption of the Constitution.  (Nowhere in civilized society is there a freedom of conduct.) 

Our government is pledged to “ensure domestic tranquillity.”  It cannot do this without seeing to it that conduct in public places is properly regulated.

You are a thinking person and we need more of your ilk, but you got off on the wrong foot here.  What say? 

Louis Worth Jones, nonacademic citizen activist.
 
 

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