In a stinging dissent to a 1961 Supreme Court decision that allowed the Illinois state bar to deny admission to prospective lawyers if they refused to answer political questions, Justice Hugo Black closed with the memorable line, "We Must not be Afraid to be free." Black saw the First Amendment as the foundation of American freedom--the guarantor of all other Constitutional rights.
The impulse to curb or limit it has been a constant d.
Yet since Free speech is by nature unruly, people fear it.
In a stinging dissent to a 1961 Supreme Court decision that allowed the Illinois state bar to deny admission to prospective lawyers if they refused to answer political questions, Justice Hugo Black closed with the memorable line, "We Must not be Afraid to be free." Black saw the First Amendment as the foundation of American freedom--the guarantor of all other Constitutional rights