After the Constitution was ratified in June of 1788, George Washington and James Madison urged the members of Congress to ...
The past decade or so has been a particularly grueling era for nonpartisan defenders of free speech. From the beginning of the first Trump administration, some Democrats and liberals proposed ...
The version of the quote that widely circulated online was shortened and simplified, but it accurately preserved the meaning of Washington's original words as delivered in a March 15, 1783, speech.
Burt looks at how Freedom of Speech became central to the US creed. 1 Freedom of Speech is central to Burt’s work, which is why he put together two programs dealing with the subject. In this first ...