> The right of free speech, as recognized by the First Amendment, precedes and predates the constitution.
This is the exact interpretation of such rights that one arrives at under John Locke's view of the state of nature which he argued preceded society (and thus government of any kind). One of the big takeaways from his Second Treatise which was incredibly influential to many of the "founding fathers" (I feel like selling out when I say that, but hey, it's succinct. unlike this now-meta parenthetical)
... and somehow I just remembered that random bit from a summer course at Cornell I took during high school, but if you asked me what I learned in GOVT5 my junior year of college, I honestly couldn't tell you anything other than that boris yeltsin died on new years eve, 1999. And that the freshmen were too young to already know that Czechoslovakia was not a god damned soviet republic.
Boris Yeltsin didn't die on new year eve 1999, he died in April 2007. Yeltsin resigned on new year eve 1999, effectively relinquishing the power to Putin.
This is the exact interpretation of such rights that one arrives at under John Locke's view of the state of nature which he argued preceded society (and thus government of any kind). One of the big takeaways from his Second Treatise which was incredibly influential to many of the "founding fathers" (I feel like selling out when I say that, but hey, it's succinct. unlike this now-meta parenthetical)
... and somehow I just remembered that random bit from a summer course at Cornell I took during high school, but if you asked me what I learned in GOVT5 my junior year of college, I honestly couldn't tell you anything other than that boris yeltsin died on new years eve, 1999. And that the freshmen were too young to already know that Czechoslovakia was not a god damned soviet republic.