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censorship

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Censorship

Introduction

Thomas Jefferson once stated that democracy cannot be ignorant while at the same time be free . In the first amendment , the framers of the constitution felt that the new US needed to take care in sharing information amongst its citizen . Failure to do this , then the country was anticipated to be much worse than the time they were under the British rule . The British left in US a history of official and tyranny control of information . Using this guide , the framers of

the constitution included in the constitution the Bill of Rights which contains limits upon government intervention and control as well as substantive and procedural guarantees of individual liberties (Robbins 216

Local censorship

Basing on much of the American history , the First Amendment was not made to apply to municipalities and states . Entities that had no prohibition in their charters had the opportunity of censoring magazines , newspapers , plays , comedy shows and books . Under Earl Warren the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the US , the free speech decisions served from 1953 to 1969 . The decisions extended the protections as offered by the First Amendment specifically to the local government . As a result much stricter standards were brought forward concerning what was acceptable from government actions (Robbins 216

Developments

There have been some developments in the wartime censorship and it is only on rare instances where the First Amendment has been negated in the American history . The interest of the national security has...

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