Freedom_Of_Speech

Freedom Of Speech Freedom of Speech At the heart of the First Amendment, it is the recognition of the fundamental importance to the free flows of ideas that brings this society together as the gathering place for the world. Many people associate America as such only because of the individual freedoms that are offered, especially important is the freedom of speech, which without we cannot govern properly. Because of all the freedoms accessible to any person holding the title of citizen, they feel no oppression to what they hold important as they contribute different opinions to society as a whole, particularly criticism in non-obstructive ways. In a democracy, there is always an existing tension between a free press and the government, between what the government claims ought to be kept confidential and what reporters believe the public ought to know. Rarely has this conflict been clearer than in the infamous Pentagon Papers case. In 1967, the Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, ordered a full-scale evaluation of how the United States became involved in the Vietnam War. A study team of thirty-six people took more than a year to compile the report, which consisted of forty-seven volumes, with some 4,000 pages of government, press, first, publication, people, court, amendment, free, vietnam, know, justice, against, war, times, theory, should, security, right, restraint, prior, power, national, make, been, ways, post, papers, out, might, justices, june, information, freedom, foreign, department, citizen