http://www.dailytech.com/New+York+Democrats+Argue+Free+Speech+is+a+Privilege+That+Can+be+Revoked/article22929.htm
I teach this subject... The First Amendment was written by James Madison, who was the protege of Thomas Jefferson, who urged Madison to base this amendment on his own "Statute for Religious Freedom" which he had written into Virginia's state constitution. http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/archives/documents/ih195802.htm There is no doubt about what Jefferson or Madison intended to do here. The First Amendment is known as the "Five Freedoms" and one of those freedoms is Freedom of Speech. In his Declaration of Independence, Jefferson called such individual rights "unalienable", because they CANNOT be taken away. You're born with them. This was a test answer on our District Benchmark Test last Friday. In that same document, Jefferson went on to assert that the only reason that people create governments at all is to protect their rights and that when governments fail to do this, the people have a right to destroy the government and make a new one. None of these ideas were original with Jefferson either. They came out of the Age of Reason and the writings of the English philosopher John Locke. All of the founding fathers were aware of these concepts and all of them, even the poorly educated like George Washington, subscribed to them. People are born with their rights and no government can take them away.
You haven't met the latest Lefty version of the Executive and Legislative branches of the USA, have you.