Main Street (Hanover, New Hampshire — The Short List)
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Events with rich location context
Main Street is evoked as the public arena where private taste becomes political visibility; Bartlet's hypothetical of walking down Main Street in ugly clothes translates constitutional doctrine into the social reality of everyday Americans.
Not physically present but imagined as bustling, observational, and judgmental.
Illustrative public setting used to test free expression and social consequence.
Represents civic life and the court of popular opinion where legal rules meet everyday behavior.
Publicly accessible in the hypothetical; no formal constraints.
Main Street is invoked as the imagined public stage for Bartlet's ugly jacket hypothetical; it serves rhetorically to translate abstract rights into ordinary freedoms visible to neighbors and voters.
Not physically present; conjured as a bustling, ordinary civic space where personal expression is visible and politically legible.
Illustrative setting for testing the reach of First Amendment protections and demonstrating how legal rules play out in everyday life.
Represents public opinion and communal norms — the place where constitutional abstractions become lived, vote‑bearing experiences.
Public and open in the hypothetical; anyone can enter.
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