Our Constitution protects us from the government controlling what we say, how we think, and what we believe. This includes what we read, the information sources we choose, the people we gather and associate with, who we follow on social media, TV, etc. Our First Amendment clearly codifies our right to, in a nutshell, freely express ourselves. It comes first in our Bill of Rights for a reason. You see, our founding fathers believed that the freedom to openly express your personal thoughts and beliefs without fear of retribution from the so-called powers that be, was a crucial bedrock for the proper foundation for a new country. Remember, our founders came from a tyrannical government where their voices meant barely anything, and the king decided right from wrong, true from false, loyalty from treason.
The brave men who formed our nation risked everything (their security, comfort, stature, life’s work, family, friends, worldly belongings, and in some cases their lives) in order to create a free country. The Bill of Rights they drafted oozes with sovereignty, independence, and personal autonomy; while their Declaration of Independence oozes with proclamations of liberty, justice and self-governance, containing phrases that declare “that all men are created equal”, and that they all have “certain unalienable Rights”, and clarifying that the purpose of government is “to secure these rights”. One of the most important phrases in that Declaration is the line that explains that the government derives its “just powers from the consent of the governed….”
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