Be Careful What You Wish For

America. It's an odd country. It has lots of good things, and many bad. One of those good things is their Constitution. Something England doesn't bother to have. As part of the Constitution they have a first amendment that states:

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.

A wholy admirable sentiment. Try as I might I can't imagine a situation in which I would describe this as "going too far" in any manner.

Some American students can. 1 in 3 of them.

Yet, when told of the exact text of the First Amendment, more than one in three high school students said it goes "too far" in the rights it guarantees. Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories.

Which, if I understand correctly, means that a significant number of Amercian students want less rights.

They deserve them.