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** Three: If a program contains some "educational and informative" information, they can legally count as an "E/I". Many talk shows got away with this because some provide information to the viewers.

* While profanity is strictly monitored on cable and broadcast television, it has to count if heard but [[Getting Crap Past the Radar| not mouthed off]]. This means, if a character lip sync the swear word without having it heard or replace it with an animal sound like a dolphin chirp or the classic bleep, a TV Network can get away with it.

* While is banned alcohol in prisons, the materials to make a kind of alcohol known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruno Pruno] are still legal because prisons are required to make sure national needs are meet. Some wardens have tried to [[Obvious Rule Patch| banned fresh fruits from leaving]] the cafeterias but that isn’t stopped inmates from getting alternatives.

* '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution The First Amendment of the United States Constitution]''': ''Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise there of; 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.''

** '''Three''': If a child is born outside the United States and one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year, the child would still be declared a natural-born. Even if he was born in his father's native of Kenya, [http://ivn.us/2013/08/13/defining-natural-born-citizen/ Obama] was still been allowed to become US President because his mother, Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas.

* In 2010, [http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/05/us/massachusetts-upskirt-photography/ Michael Robertson] was arrested in Boston for voyeurism after he was caught taking pictures of women with his cell-hone camera. Robertson uses his camera photograph up the women’s skirts, and he exposed a serious loophole. Because the photographs didn’t contain nudity, the "Peeping Tom" laws against voyeurism didn’t applied. After Michael Robertson was let go, lawmakers in Massachusetts [[Obvious Rule Patch| immediately passed reforms to the laws]] to include "upskirting".

 

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