The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgment the great postulate of our democracy.

Common sense often makes good law.

The First Amendment commands government to have no interest in theology or ritual; it admonishes the government to be interested in allowing religious freedom to flourish -- whether the result is to produce Catholics, Jews, or Protestants, or to turn the people toward the path of Buddha, or to end in a predominantly Moslem nation, or to produce in the long run atheists or agnostics. On matters of this kind, government must remain neutral. This freedom plainly includes freedom from religion with the right to believe, speak, write, publish and advocate antireligious programs.

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.

Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?