[SkyDancer]

This comes to mind being a product of home schooling.

Peter Zenger and Freedom of the Press

In the latter part of 1733 John Peter Zenger began publishing a newspaper in New York to voice opposition to the onerous policies of newly appointed colonial governor William Cosby.

More here:http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/bookmarks/zenger/

[abb]

More on point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_v._Minnesota

Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931), was a United States Supreme Court decision that recognized the freedom of the press by roundly rejecting prior restraints on publication, a principle that was applied to free speech generally in subsequent jurisprudence. The Court ruled that a Minnesota law that targeted publishers of “malicious” or “scandalous” newspapers violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution (as applied through the Fourteenth Amendment). Legal scholar and columnist Anthony Lewis called Near the Court’s “first great press case.”[1]

[patton]

The Grandson of Francis Scott Keyes was imprisoned in Ft. McHenry, for annoying the tyrant Lincoln, without benefit of Habeus Corpus.

Ironic, isn’t it.

“And the flag was still there.”