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On the recordSeptember 3, 2018
We need a First Amendment because it is required for individual liberty, and we need it structurally because society, and particularly a republic, needs that discourse.
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Ben Sasse
Republican · Nebraska

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Emphasizes the importance of the First Amendment for individual liberty and societal discourse.

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