GILBERT S. MERRITT JR.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation.