Meaning of free press | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“1768, Samuel Adams, Boston Gazette — cited in: Emord, Jonathan W. (1991). Freedom, Technology, and the First Amendment. Pacific Research⟳ Institute for Public Policy. p. 61. There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly TERRIBLE to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a FREE PRESS⟳.”

“One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press⟳, freedom of worship⟳ and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote⟳; they depend⟳ on the outcome of no elections.”

“In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press⟳ the protection is must have⟳ to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press⟳ was to serve⟳ the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press⟳ was abolished so that the press⟳ would remain⟳ forever free to censure the Government. The press⟳ was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform⟳ the people.”

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