Right there atop the Bill of Rights, since December 15, 1791, and designed to protect citizens from the government interfering with free religious exercise, free conduct of the press, free assembly, and quite pertinent to these times, the right of the people to speak, write, grunt, carrier-pigeon, smoke signal, and otherwise communicate to redress grievances with the government.

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