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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. After a month, Gage was able to travel to New Hampshire to continue his convalescence at his parents’ home. It was clearly not necessary for life, but it was necessary to being fully human.