Free speech needs no amending

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Author(s) The Detroit News editorial board
Source The Detroit News
Date September 15, 2014
URL http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140915/OPINION01/309150002/0/OPINION01/Free-speech-needs-no-amending
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Quotes-start.png Both sides take money from rich people and corporations. And certainly it would be nice if there were less money in politics. But the Constitution does not permit politicians to place arbitrary restrictions on speech. Protecting the First Amendment should not give way to those so determined to gain a partisan edge that they are willing to rewrite the fundamental rights of Americans. Quotes-end.png


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