Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1919 — Freedom of the Press. [ARTICLE]

Freedom of the Press.

The Constitution of the ,U._ S., as originally adopted, contained no provision regarding the freedom of the press, but the first amendment, introduced in the first congress, covered that subject and some other important ones. It reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”