Here is a basic 3 x 2 table for you to modify (three columns, two rows). Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or restricting the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble or to petition the government for a redress of grievances (First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution). |
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They believed that the greatest menace to freedom is an inert people; that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government (Brandeis, 1927). |
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal (Lincoln, 1863). | Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties, and that in its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty (Brandeis, 1927). | They believed that freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth; that without free speech and assembly, discussion would be futile; that with them, discussion affords ordinarily adequate protection against the dissemination of noxious doctrine ... (Brandeis, 1927: Whitney v. People of the State of California, 274 U.S. 357). |