The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The people wanted and demanded a Bill of Rights written into their Constitution. The amendments embodying the Bill of Rights were intended to curb all branches of the Federal Government in the fields touched by the amendments-Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious

I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.

Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.