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Is the First Amendment Enough Today?


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Today on We the People, we’re sharing a conversation from a private event hosted by the National Constitution Center this May in Coral Gables, Florida, recorded with permission from the speakers.

The question we asked of our panelists was, “Is the First Amendment Enough?” In today’s world of Twitter mobs, disinformation, and polarized media, should we be looking for a new standard when it comes to regulating speech—or not? 

Journalists Kimberly Atkins Stohr of The Boston GlobeDavid French of The DispatchAli Velshi of MSNBC, and legal scholar Larry Kramer of the William Flora Hewlett Foundation join NCC president and CEO Jeffrey Rosen for the conversation.


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Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr.

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