We're All Normal and We Want Our Freedom
The McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum recently conducted a survey that shows a sampling of the adult population in the United States finds it easier to recall the five main characters from The Simpsons than to name the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment. Approximately one in five adults could name all five Simpsons. Only one in one thousand could name all five freedoms.
Here is the apparently obscure, but beloved amendment:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."