November 15, 2007 at 2:23 pm
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@titus 145212 wrote:
…. But it cannot be the duty, because it is not the right, of the state to protect the public against false doctrine.
The very purpose of the First Amendment is to foreclose public authority from assuming a guardianship of the public mind through regulating the press, speech, and religion.
In this field every person must be his own watchman for truth, because the forefathers did not trust any government to separate the true from the false for us. …
Mr. Justice JACKSON, concurring
U.S. Supreme Court
THOMAS v. COLLINS, 323 U.S. 516 (1945)
God but thats a great quote!