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“A republic, if you can keep it.” -Benjamin Franklin, responding to a question about what sort of government the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had created INTRODUCTION In August 2023, state legislators in California introduced a bill making it a crime to create a “substantial disturbance” at a school board meeting supposedly open to the public. It is anyone’s guess as to what constitutes a “substantial disturbance,” as the proposed bill does not define the phrase