Freeze Peach again

 As words inevitably have multiple and elastic meanings, a requirement of formal discourse is to define your terms: what doImean by this word in the present context. It is not a valid response to an argument to say " I, or some dictionary or other authority, doesn ' t doesn ' t define the word the same way, so your argument is wrong. " That is simply an inept, and cowardly, failure to engage with what your interlocutor is saying.A very good example of a term that causes immense confusion is " free speech, " or freedom of speech. This term is contested everywhere, but it ' s particularly problematic in the U.S. because, among other reasons, it ' s specifically mentioned in the Constitution:Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. The courts have consistently interpreted this to mean that the executive can ' t do these things either, because if " Congress shall make no law . .. " and the executive is required to faithfully execute the laws, the executive can ' t possibly have any legal authority to abridge these rights.  (The 14th Amendment extended the guarantees of the Bill of Rights to the states, by the way, a fairly major point that many people don ' t seem to know.) Unfortunately, the Constitution does not define " freedom of spe...
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