1st Amendment Then and Now
- Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
This is the first of a series of articles looking at aspects of the United States Constitution to examine how well it has held up through the test of time. I suspect many readers will find that nearly 250 years of human foibles have tweaked some things in, heretofore, unacknowledged ways.