the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination: His career reached its climax when he was elected president. 2. (in a dramatic or literary work) a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot. 3. Rhetoric. a figure consisting of a series of related ideas so arranged that each surpasses the preceding in force or intensity.
Definition of freedom of speech. : the legal right to express one's opinions freely.
Where we part company with the plaintiff, however, is that we are certain that this debate is, and in the interest of the disputants. and the public should be, an open free speech debate under the First Amendment. and not one subject to legal regulation under the commercial speech doctrine.ââ).