I think that the response to Tom's argument -- "If they are simply speech, then there
is absolutely no basis for the widespread (though certainly not uniform) sense that
the mayors are going outside the law and that their practice of performing same-sex
marriages ought to be stopped until the co
And an indispensible text discussing this distinction in the context of the
Free Speech Clause is Kent Greenawalt's Speech, Crime, and the Uses of
Language.
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From a former life, I recall that a perlocutionary act is a meaningful speech act designed to have particular effects on people who hear them. For example, telling the story of "the little engine that could" has the perlocutionary force of encouraging a child to try to master some task. I
