Should We Repeal the First Amendment?

Last week, the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum announced the results of a survey of 1,000 Americans, which suggested our country is more familiar with Simpsons characters, commercial slogans, and the judges from American Idol than with the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment (i.e., religion, speech, the press, assembly, and redress of grievances… though if I need to list them, you’re sort of proving the point). Only 28 percent of those surveyed could name more than one of these freedoms. And a mere one respondent was able to name all five.

In this week's article, By a Show of Hands, Who Cares About the First Amendment?, Jonathan David Morris discusses these results and what they mean for the average American. JDM is very tongue-in-cheek, but he gets his point across!