Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of 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.
The autumn 2009 class of Glenn Fellows spent the morning of Wednesday, October 7, at the National Archives and Records Administration, where Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, and the United States Constitution are all proudly (if not altogether effectively) displayed. I don't know about you, but I always feel a surge of patriotic pride whenever I witness Americans exercising their First Amendment freedoms--even when it is on behalf of causes that seem highly dubious to me. A case in point might be the "truth truck" that is cruising around Capitol Hill these days (double-click on photo to enlarge, if you dare).
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