Centre City enacts an ordinance that bans the distribution of all printed materials on city streets. Diners Café opposes the city's latest "revenue-enhancing" measure-a tax on prepared food sales-and wants to protest by distributing handbills. In Diners' suit against the city, a court would likely hold the ban on printed materials to be
A)constitutional under the First Amendment.
B)not subject to the U.S. Constitution.
C)unconstitutional under the commerce clause.
D)unconstitutional under the First Amendment.

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The ban on all printed materials restricts freedom of speech, which is protected under the First Amendment. This makes the ordinance likely to be seen as unconstitutional by a court.

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