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Show Your right to criticize the government govern-ment is still an unusual privilege in the world today. A printer not an author was convicted of treason against King Charles II of England when he printed book that said the king was not fit to reign. In finding him guilty of treason in ll'r.:t. the court sentenced John Twyn: "...You shall be hanged by the neck, and being alive, shall be cut down, and your privy-members shall Ik- cut off, your entrails shall be taken out of your Ixidy. and you living, the same to ho burnl before your eyes; your head to lx cut off, your body tube divided into four quarters ami your head and quarters to lie disposed of at the pleasure of the king's majesty. And the Lord have mercy upon your soul." The First Amendment, enacted in 17111 is your precious guaranlee of freedom to speak or write anv opinion you have aUnit lh way your government govern-ment is working. |