This is certainly one of the more disappointing polls that we’ve seen in a while. A recent survey being reported on at Reason Magazine found that more than half of Americans feel that they have too many civil liberties. More specifically, they believe that the First Amendment rights granted to citizens by the Founders “go too far.” Democrats were more likely to say this than Republicans, but both groups rang up a score of more than half who agreed with that sentiment. So when did our fundamental freedoms begin going out of style? Is totalitarianism really becoming more popular? We’ll take a look at these questions here today.
More than half of Americans believe the First Amendment can go too far in the rights it guarantees, according to a new survey from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a First Amendment–focused nonprofit.
The survey, released on…
