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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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