Editing Symbolic speech (section)

===''Cohen v. California''===
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In 1968, Paul Cohen entered a Los Angeles Courthouse wearing a jacket that displayed the words "Fuck the Draft" knowing that the jacket displayed these words. Though he had removed the jacket and placed it under his arm before entering the courthouse, a [[police]] officer witnessed the jacket and slogan in the corridor and arrested him for "willingly and unlawfully and [[Malice (legal term)|maliciously]] disturbing the [[peace]] and quiet by engaging in tumultuous and offensive conduct."<ref name="amazon.com"/>

The Court voted 5–4 in favor of Cohen. Justice [[John Marshall Harlan II|Harlan]] wrote "[A]bsent a more particularized and compelling reason for its actions, the State may not, consistently with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, make the simple public display of this single four-letter [[Expletive attributive|expletive]] a criminal offense." In the court's opinion, Harlan also penned the now famous line "one man's [[vulgarity]] is another's [[Lyric poetry|lyric]]".<ref>''[[Cohen v. California]]'', 403 U.S. 15 (1971)</ref>