from Wikipedia:
In 1776, the second year of the American Revolutionary War, the Virginia colonial legislature passed a Declaration of Rights that included the sentence “The freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic Governments.” Eight of the other thirteen states made similar pledges.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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Yay! Just heard Dorothy, the Cooked clerk, IS dropped….