THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FIRST GREAT AWAKENING RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
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Freedom of Religion
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Freedom of the Press
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The right to remain silent
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The right to an attorney.
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Detailed explanation-1: -John Peter Zenger became a symbol for the freedom of the press in the young American colonies. Seen above is a printing of the trial proceedings. No democracy has existed in the modern world without the existence of a free press. Newspapers and pamphlets allow for the exchange of ideas and for the voicing of dissent.
Detailed explanation-2: -Zenger’s case established that truth cannot be libelous The importance of the case is that it established the principle, now firmly embedded in U.S. law, that truthful information cannot be libelous.
Detailed explanation-3: -John Peter Zenger, (born 1697, Germany-died July 28, 1746, New York City), New York printer and journalist whose famous acquittal in a libel suit (1735) established the first important victory for freedom of the press in the English colonies of North America.