As children are inherently of lesser mental capacity than an adult of legal age is, the courts in America seek to prevent potentially harmful actions by children and against children. Justice Kennedy wrote, in the Court's Opinion that "Congress may pass valid laws to protect children from abuse, and it has", and he later notes that free speech may be limited under certain categories "including defamation, incitement, obscenity, and pornography produced with real children" (Kennedy 7)...
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The Court and the United States is correct in this stance. Justice Kennedy again says concerning child pornography "The fact that a work contained serious literary, artistic, or other value did not excuse the harm it caused to its child participants" (Kennedy 11). Because children cannot aptly make decisions of high mental capacity, the Court finds it in the interest of the nation to legislate areas where it sees a possible danger that is too great to risk in the hands of ill-capable parents...
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