What is the legal test or rule for determining when a statute will be declared void for vagueness?
What will be an ideal response?
A law will be declared void for vagueness if a person of reasonable and ordinary intelligence would not be able to tell, from looking at its terms, what speech is allowed and what speech is prohibited. Put differently, people of ordinary intelligence should not have to guess at a statute's meaning.
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