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The Antisemitism Controversy Shows the Wisdom of the First Amendment

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MONDAY, MAY 13, 2024
Preserving freedom requires leashing government. The less people learn about government policies, the less control people will have over government action. By preventing people from knowing what government is doing, secrecy unleashes government.
– James Bovard, The Bush Betrayal [2004]

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May 13, 2024
The Antisemitism Controversy Shows the Wisdom of the First Amendment
When proponents of the Constitution were trying to persuade the American people to adopt it, they said that the only powers that the federal government could exercise were the powers that were expressly enumerated in the document itself. Since there was no power to infringe freedom of speech, for example, the federal government could not suppress speech. However, our American ancestors were not …
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