# Bricker, you are not a law professor

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-you-are-not-a-law-professor/517930>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 17, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-you-are-not-a-law-professor/517930 "2009-11-17T17:24:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-you-are-not-a-law-professor/517930/172 "2009-11-20T20:58:34Z")

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> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#):
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> I breathlessly await your citation of anyone anywhere in that entire thread saying that what the poseur did is currently legal in the U.S.
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> Scratch that. Not breathlessly, or I’m gonna pass out. And I’ve got desk on either side of me, so there’s a good chance I’d hit my head on something.

Sure. In response to a question about where the Constitution protects the right to wear unearned medals:

> [@Fake Marine in full uniform at his High School reunion is found out by classmate & arrested With pic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-marine-in-full-uniform-at-his-high-school-reunion-is-found-out-by-classmate-arrested-with-pic/517292/67):
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> I have one of those shiny Constitutions with the First Amendment intact. If you’d like to sidetrack into fraud and other strawmen, have at it – I don’t think anyone has had a difficult time distinguishing between douching it up at a highschool reunion and sneaking onto military bases.

That is a claim that the Constitution, the supreme law of the land, has a shiny First Amendment that protects the right to wear unearned medals, and therefore any law to the contrary is invalid as violative of that guarantee.

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