Blog # 8

Find & link to at least one specific news article (although it doesn't have to be "new") that addresses at least one specific part of the Constitution that interests you.

http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-09-10/bay-area/23996703_1_tattoo-parlors-ruling-state-courts

Then....

1. Summarize the article, and include relevant quotes.
The article I read was about how tattoos are protected by the first amendment. It discus that tattoos is a part of freedom of speech and tattoos can not be ban. "A form of speech does not lose First Amendment protection based on the kind of surface it is applied to,”. Also how some people are trying to ban tattoos cause of the hazard of health. But when taken to a judge in Los Angeles the ban on tattoos did no go through “Because the customer has final control over the design, Judge Christina Snyder reasoned, tattoo artists convey no message of their own, lack First Amendment protection and can be excluded as a public health risk.”
2. Explain what Constitutional concepts are relevant. Some may be obvious, but others maybe more subtly related. Explain the Constitutional connection in your own words, but also reference the specific Article & Section or Amendment(s).
The article is making a reference to the first amendment which is the right of freedom of speech. This connects to the tattooing because some people want to ban tattoos but the first amendment protects it because it is a form of freedom of speech. “A lasting tattoo is a different form of expression, indicating that its bearer is "highly committed to the message,"prepared to suffer pain to receive it and willing to display it for life, Bybee said.”
3. Explain what interests you about this article and/or the Constitutional connections you found.
This interested me because I didn’t know that people were trying to get rid of tattoos for good I knew that people didn’t approve of them but I didn’t know that they wanted them to be gone for good so this article interested me to know that the first amendment protects the right to get a tattoos