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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. In September 1848, Gage, twenty-five, was working as a railroad foreman in Cavendish, Vermont. Much of this early knowledge came from tragic stories like that of Phineas Gage and his tamping iron.