COM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Endangerment, Speech Code, First Amendment To The United States Constitution

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Communication
• Course: COM 100
• Professor: Muccino

Document Summary

Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, redress of grievances. Liberal: there are certain right that cannot be taken away from you, regardless of what majority says. Gave idea of market place of ideas . Interested in creating well-informed citizens for good democracy. So they need unrestricted access to ideas. Mill"s 3-prong defense for freedom of speech. As opinion is silenced, the truth may be silenced as well. Even a wrong opinion may contain an element of truth necessary to discover the whole truth. Even if commonly accepted opinion is the whole truth, people will hold it not as rational belief, but as prejudice if they have not had to defend it. Importance of defending your beliefs against people who don"t hold your same beliefs. Put all these together and you get . You can"t be prevented from saying/printing whatever you want, or be.