Summary
The United States and the United Kingdom both have provisions within their constitutions that guarantee freedom of speech. Americans are proud of the First Amendment to the US Constitution, which makes freedom of speech one of the main girders of their constitution.
Perhaps it is significant that the comparable European 'free speech' clause comes lower down - as Article Ten of the 1950 European Convention On Human Rights.See the full content of this document
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Law Can Never Be Silenced Without Risk
That convention was incorporated in British law under the 1998 Human Rights Act; I remember it being enacted in the early years of Tony Blair's Government, which came to power in 1997.
In the House of Lords we felt we were moving towards a new v...See the full content of this document
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