The First Amendment Under A Microscope — Part 3 Of 3 — The “Abridgement” Clause
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The third pillar of the First Amendment's temple of liberty is the "abridgement" clause: ... freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
The "abridgement" clause comprises three distinct but intimately related parts: freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly.
-- Freedom of the press
Freedom of the press is arguably the area in which the United States is distinct from all other nations in the latitude permitted the press, electronic and otherwise, in the dissemination of opinions. It is true enough that virtually all other nations, especially those whose ideological DNA can be traced back to the 18th-century European Enlightenment, have free media, a
