As Act 769 had not become law when the chancellor made his ruling, the sole question before him was the constitutionality of Act 188. The taxpayers challenged it as being in violation of their rights of freedom of speech and freedom of the press guaranteed by the First Amendment, their right to equal privileges and immunities guaranteed by U.S. Const., art. 4, § 2, and
Ark. Const. art. 2, § 18, and their right to equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment and
Ark. Const. art. 2, § 3. They also claimed protection under
47 U.S.C. § 542 and the Supremacy Clause. All of the counts in the complaint boiled down to a claim of discrimination against the cable television medium, and that is the essence of the arguments on appeal, although they are segmented as was the complaint.