The "Invention" of Free Speech

Today I am going to talk about the "invention" of freedom of speech. I had the opportunity, thanks to my kind and beautiful creative writing teacher, to sit in and listen to a few heated debates regarding controversial subjects. These debates were an assignment for English class. This made me think. The idea of people arguing with each other for a grade in school sounds rather strange: everyone having different views and getting to express them openly. It's a wonder to think how things have changed since our founding fathers wrote those words regarding American's free speech policies. This invention has no doubt helped form our country become the thriving "super-power" it is today. This may, in fact, be one of our nation's, and possibly world's, greatest inventions to date.

Go America!

Actually, now that I think about it, it's probably not one of our world's greatest inventions. It's certainly not one of the most useful. It's good, though. Freedom of speech is good.