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Living Like Founding Fathers

Story of the Week with Joel Stein

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The First Amendment and the Second Amendment

In 1789, the First Amendment didn't give us the right to say whatever we wanted. So then you impose those rules on your own family. I told my kids they could not say a blaspheme. They couldn't say goddamn. To punish your child for blaspheming, you bought a pillory. The people who wrote the Constitution were incredibly sexist.

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