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Gerry Connolly: “So, by virtue of adoption of the First Amendment, we also set up, whether we intended it or not, a dialectic.”

On the recordJune 1, 2015
So, by virtue of adoption of the First Amendment, we also set up, whether we intended it or not, a dialectic.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

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Connolly discusses the inherent tension in access to information under the First Amendment.

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