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Are you sitting down It turns out that everything you learned about the First Amendment is wrong. For too long, weve been treating small, isolated snippets of the text as infallible gospel without looking at the masterpiece of the whole. Legal luminary Burt Neuborne argues that the structure of the First Amendment as well as of the entire Bill of Rights was more intentional than most people realize, beginning with the internal freedom of conscience and working outward to freedom of expression and finally freedom of public association. This design, Neuborne argues, was not to protect discrete individual rightssuch as the rights of corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence electionsbut to guarantee that the process of democracy continues without disenfranchisement, oppression, or injustice.



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