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The Freedom of Speech

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The History of the First Amendment

The history of the First Amendment long before you get to the internet age is already really complicated. And like maybe the most fundamental thing that it doesn't help us answer is what is speech? The amendment could have been written to say, Congress shall make no law that infringes upon speech, but they actually said the freedom of speech. So it's a little bit of a black box, we don't really know what they meant by this.

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