All Posts Tagged With: "First Amendment"
Doc of the Day: Bill of Rights
On December 15, 1791, the ten amendments collectively known as the Bill of Rights were added to the U.S. Constitution when Virginia became the last of the necessary states to ratify the amendments. The amendments were initially introduced to Congress by James Madison. With the introduction and acceptance of the Bill of Rights, the government [...]
15Dec2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
Michael J. O’Neal on Censorship and the Publishing Industry
The words “censor” and “censorship” get tossed around with tedious regularity. Too often, when a message fails to find an audience, its author, like a porcupine hopped up on Red Bull, gets all prickly and cries “censorship,” with images of Nazi book burnings or officious medieval prelates impaling heretics on toasting forks and roasting them [...]
19Jun2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued