Freedom of speech was designed to hamstring government

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  • Freedom of speech was designed to hamstring government
    Freedom of speech was designed to hamstring government
Publisher, Leader & Times, Liberal, Kan.The Founders were no fan of government, and yet they created perhaps the best form of government ever conceived by man.Mr. Parsons was my high school speech teacher, and what the founders did with the Constitution is similar to a statement he used to tell us — “Give the hardest job to the laziest man, and he’ll find the easiest way to do it.”The…

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