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Here is an Excerpt From The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage

JonathanTurley

What possessed James Madison to draft the First Amendment in absolutist terms was likely a mix of the experiential and the philosophical. Rather than replicate what came before, the Framers spoke of protecting all speech from abridgment from the government. A hole was drilled, and explosives stuffed into the bottom.