Today, the government seems determined to use force to prevent change and suppress freedom. If the British had done this successfully in the 1770s, we'd all be bowing to Charles III today.
When James Madison was a member of Congress in 1791 and charged with drafting the Bill of Rights, he made two grammatical demands.
Though the colonists deeply valued all the rights articulated in the Declaration, truly it was the freedom of speech that drove the revolution. Today, this most basic and utterly essential freedom — both a natural human right and a constitutionally protected right — is under assault by governments that hate or fear the content of the speech.
Even the colleges in states without these laws that accept federal funds do so in contracts with the federal government, which require that they respect free speech rights.
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