The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

We still have a First Amendment that protects your business and free speech.

Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.

The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.

Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son!/ All that we know is, nothing can be known.

[They also argued the Dorgan amendment would prevent the United States from negotiating improvements in its trade remedy laws.] That's a lot of rubbish, ... They don't intend to negotiate improvements.