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This 3 page paper discusses whether or not Ariana the Talking Cat’s owner needs to pay a fine for letting her speak in public; it argues that he does for violating local ordinances, not for the fact that she can talk. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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that the cats are cursing at us. This paper considers several issues surrounding Ariana and her ability to speak. Discussion The prompt says that Arianas owner, presumably after regaining consciousness
after the shock, found that she could speak and decided to cash in on her ability by holding public meetings and charging admission. The city is displeased because he has
no business license and warns him not to do it again. When he holds the same presentation the following night, the police break it up and fine him for violating
the local ordinance. The questions are: since the fine was levied because of the performance of a talking cat, is the local ordinance legal? And second, is Arianas speech protected
by the Constitution? It first must be determined if the local government has the authority to issue an ordinance requiring a business license for public meetings; then, can the city
ban the meeting because it centers on a talking cat? As to the first point, Meiklejohn writes that the constitutionality of legal ordinances depends on why they are issued: if
they are issued because the local government does not agree with the ideas to be presented at the meeting, they are illegal because they violate the First Amendment (1961). However,
if the ordinance is issued for some other legitimate reason, such as crowd control, it will stand and Arianas person will have to pay the fine (Meiklejohn, 1961). Here, since
it seems unlikely that anyone would object to the meeting simply because the speaker is a talking cat-they would be fascinated if anything-the local ordinance does not infringe on the
First Amendment right of free speech, and Arianas human will need permission for any further meetings. The City of Seattle notes that very specific information is required when someone applies
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