Immediately following the murder of Mr. George Floyd Americans took to the streets to voice their support, sorrow, frustration, anger, and disappointment in a manner and magnitude that people of my generation have not seen, and America has not seen, since the Civil Rights era.  In the midst of a global pandemic no less!  Current events have me thinking back to our early beginnings as a collection of provincial colonies clustered along the North American coast.  The First Amendment protects our most valuable rights: religion, speech, and the ability to protect these rights through peaceful assembly and petition.

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