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• ‟ The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

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• ‟ Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

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• ‟ A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.

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• ‟ Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

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• ‟ In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.

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