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Basic principles that change with the time aren't basic principles at all. Is the First Amendment guaranteeing freedom of speech irrelevant now because we aren'
by gottorf 2y ago
Basic principles that change with the time aren't basic principles at all. Is the First Amendment guaranteeing freedom of speech irrelevant now because we aren't communicating via handwritten letters and bulletin boards anymore?
- ceejayoz 2y agoThe modern conception of the First Amendment is pretty recent. It didn’t even apply to state governments until the 1920s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitlow_v._New_York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitlow_v._New_York Their “basic principles” included counting some humans as 3/5 of one. John Adams himself signed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts into law, too.