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freedom of speechRight, as stated in the 1st and 14th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, to express information, ideas, and opinions free of government restrictions based on content. A modern legal test of the legitimacy of proposed restrictions on freedom of speech was stated in the opinion by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in Schenk v. U.S. (1919): a restriction is legitimate only if the speech in question poses a “clear and present danger”—i.e., a risk or threat to safety or to other public interests that is serious and imminent. Many cases involving freedom of speech and of the press also have concerned defamation, obscenity, and prior restraint (see Pentagon Papers). See also censorship. |
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But the public expression of religion offered in the Senate on July 12 was not welcome because it came from a "false" religion. If these conditions lead to an increase in the number of presidents who give public expression to their views on the issues of the day, that is all to the good. People generally do not think of secularism as a religion because it opposes any public expression of religious views. |
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