Notable & Quotable
April 28, 2011
(T)he danger of attempting to expand the dominion of the law to take over the function of etiquette--to deal with such violations as students calling each other nasty names, or protesters doing provocative things with flags--is that it may compromise our constitutional rights. For all its strictness, a generally understood community standard of etiquette is more flexible than the law and, because it depends on voluntary compliance, less threatening.
