One of the amendments to the Constitution … expressly declares that “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,” thereby guarding in the same sentence and under the same words, the freedom of religion, of speech, and of the press; insomuch that whatever violates either throws down the sanctuary which covers the others.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) US President (1801-09)
Kentucky Resolutions, draft (1798)
In protest of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
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