...national memory and all of us have a very great stake in their preservation. James Madison declared, "The right of freely examining public characters and measures and of free communication thereon is the only effectual guardian of every other right." Commission projects are acting to protect...

...™t-1 ^rv^i memory and *n of us have a very great stake in their preservation. James Madison declared, "The right of freely examining public characters and measures and of free comnrunl cation thereon is the only effectual guardian of every other right. " Oonnrl BS1 on projects...

...discovered and preserved. James Madison, one of the principal architects of the Constitution, once wrote: "The right of freely examining public characters and measures and of free communication thereon is the only effectual guardian of every other right." Only through the preservation of this...

...form. The power to regulate the press is an especially fearful power to vest with government as "it is levelled against the right of freely examining public...characters and measures, and of free communication thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right."51 dialogue...

...state it in other than muted words. The Sedition Act ought to arouse "universal alarm," because it is levelled against the right of freely examining public...measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.8' And...

...power which more than any other ought to produce universal alarm, because it is levelled against that right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed, the only effectual guardian of every other right. That...

...referring, of course, to the first amendment. His draft emphasized that the Alien and Sedition Acts were "levelled against the right of freely examining public...measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right." silent,...

...thereto, — a power which, more than any other, ought to produce universal alarm, because it is leveled against the right of freely examining public characters...measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. Virginia...

...us to a discussion of the third First Amendment model. c. Free Speech and Democratic Self-Governance [T]he right of freely examining public characters...measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right . . . Let...

...a power "expressly and positively forbidden" by die First Amendment: a power "leveled against that right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication thereon," which was essential to elective government itself.77 Madison's defense of First Amendment...