Universities Should Respect the First Amendment
19 May 2017
Harvey Silverglate, Co-Founder and Board Member of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, discusses how colleges and universities prohibit constitutionally protected speech, how President Trump and Congress can help restore campus free speech, and how campus speech codes are dangerous documents.
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