Speaking Freely of Liang and Zhu in Baltimore

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In the ACCG/PNG/IAPN Baltimore Illegal Coin Import Stunt: "The amended complaint alleges new 1st Amendment claims relating to the informational content found on ancient coins". Oh wow, really loopy coiney stuff. These Chinese coins?

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"Ban Liang" read three of these uniface cast coins, picturing the coins featured in the case. It means "half a liang" (a measure of weight). The bottom two read "Wu zhu", which means "five zhu" (and you've guessed it, zhu is a measure of weight). The informational value on these coins is just about restricted to the varying perceptions between 221/206 BC - 220 AD and 118 BC and 618 AD of how much these weights weighed (but then since the coins on the market are without provenance, allowing us to see any patterns play out in time or space, this is no "information" at all). So where on earth the 1789 additions to the US constitution come in is really unclear:

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.

So, do the ACCG really do have a mandate from the coin collectors of the United States to make them all look like ranting idiots? What would the Founding Fathers have made of a group of traders misusing this document to assert "rights" to trade in illegally obtained items if they want?