Expressive conduct is behavior designed to convey a message; its function as speech means that it has increasingly been protected by the First Amendment. In determining whether expressive conduct deserves First Amendment protection, courts often apply a two-part test.
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Women in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries were challenged with expressing themselves in a patriarchal system that generally refused to grant merit to women's views.