3231. FREEDOM OF SPEECH, The Constitution and.—
One of the amendments
to the Constitution * * * expressly declares,
that “Congress shall make no law respecting
an establishment of religion, or prohibiting
the free exercise thereof, or abridging
the freedom of speech, or of the press”;
thereby guarding in the same sentence, and
under the same words, the freedom of religion,
of speech and of the press; insomuch,
that whatever violates either, throws down
the sanctuary which covers the others.—
Kentucky Resolutions. Washington ed. ix, 466.
Ford ed., vii, 295.
(1798)
See 820.
