We Don’t Teach/Encourage First Amendment Freedoms In School

Inside the First Amendment

By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director

“Freedom” may be just another word — to borrow a lyric from Janis Joplin — to about one in four Americans, who don’t see any of the five freedoms of the First Amendment as “essential” in their lives.

The “State of the First Amendment 2007” report, issued Sept. 11 . . .