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Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States, articulated and perpetuated the American ideals of liberty and freedom of speech, press and conscience.
Learn Thomas Jefferson's role in shaping our freedom of speech. Delve into the relevance of free speech and the fight to protect our right to express ourselves.
On the Supreme Court, in the greatest free speech opinion of the twentieth century, Justice Louis Brandeis distilled Jefferson’s four reasons for protecting free speech into a few inspiring paragraphs.
The Supreme Court of the United States characterized the rights of free speech and free press as fundamental personal rights and liberties and noted that the exercise of these rights lies at the foundation of free government by free men.
A year later, Jefferson suggested to Madison that the free speech-free press clause might read something like: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty, property, or reputation of others or affecting the peace of the ...
Commenting a year later to Madison on his proposed amendment, Jefferson suggested that the free speech-free press clause might read something like: “The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty, property, or reputation of ...
Jefferson argued that a bill of rights would enable independent courts of justice to protect individual rights; he further asserted that statements of rights would serve to educate citizens in republican principles.
Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address. 4 Mar. 1801 Richardson 1:322--23. During the contest of opinion through which we have passed the animation of discussions and of exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers unused to think freely and to speak and to write what they think; but this being now decided by the ...
What free speech means, exactly, has varied from era to era. It is noteworthy that within ten years of the Bill of Rights' ratification, President John Adams successfully passed an act specifically written to restrict the free speech of supporters of Adams' political opponent, Thomas Jefferson.
Among the critics of the law were Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, who anonymously wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions declaring the act as unconstitutional.