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"The command that 'Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press has behind it a long history. It expresses the confidence that the safety of society depends on the

tolerance of Government for hostile as well as friendly criticism, that in a community where men's minds are free, there 'mist be room for the unorthodox as well as the orthodox views.

"Once the Government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of · his publications, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the specter of a Government agent will look over the shoulder of everyone who reads."

This Supreme Court decision points the way to even stronger safeguards of a free press, a freedom which is a basic necessity of the aemocratic way.

The decision also guarantees that your name is safel

-Ann Ferguson

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