Name three good reasons.
Name two.
Name one.
I’ll wait.
The Framers knew that the only real reliable, safe judge of objective truth was G*d himself. And unlike the ancient Greeks they didn’t believe there was any Delphic Oracle to which they could go to ask for an official opinion. G*d will show us the truth in His way on His time, not in bequest of any legal process. So the Framers did the best possible thing. They gave us the right to say d*mn near anything ourselves via the 1st. And if We The People can manage to get just one person who’s willing to speak for Us elected they gave Our rep the right to say Anything in support of Us officially. The responsibility to sort out any problems with that was not left with any corruptible person, group or branch of government, but instead trusted just to G*d and to the entirety of the People, however they see fit. Noting they’d given us a Republic, “If we could keep it!” QED
It’s frustrating to watch the other side lie and get away with it, but to want someone else to do something about it is to abdicate our own responsibility. Perhaps the last time the ACLU was correct was Skokie. Let the horrible Nazis hate speak at the offended Jews there. Which G*d turned into them making fools of themselves there. And which We then lampooned the h*ll out of in The Blues Brothers. Get creative folks! Yes the 2nd is there for similar reasons, but it may not yet be the only way.
Because accusations of lying come easy when there is a difference of opinion. The conclusive punishment for lying used to be that the lies were found out.