The First Amendment Project: Volunteers Needed

Revelations that America’s young people could name five characters from The Simpsons television show, yet could not state the five freedoms of the First Amendment, should concern all of us. A recent article by Nat Hentoff alarmingly reports, “…in a national study last year, more than 100,000 high school students were interviewed on what they know of the first amendment. Seventy-three percent either had no opinion or took the First Amendment for granted, whatever that may mean. More than a third believed that the First Amendment goes too far in its guarantees.

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