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Free Speech and the Responsibilities of Citizenship

U.S. National Archives

What are the guarantees of free speech found in the Constitution of the United States? Are there limits to free speech? And what are the responsibilities of citizens who exercise their right to free speech? Dr. Michael Lipscomb of Winthrop University, talks with Dr. Edgar about these and other questions.

Dr. Lipscomb will be making a Constitution Day presentation, Free Speech and the Responsibilities of Citizenship.at Winthrop on September 17, 2018, as part of the “News Literacy and Future of Journalism” series, a seven-month collaborative effort among SC Humanities, Winthrop University. The series is part of the national initiative on “Democracy and the Informed Citizen” administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils and funded by the Mellon Foundation.

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Dr. Walter Edgar has two programs on South Carolina Public Radio: Walter Edgar's Journal, and South Carolina from A to Z. Dr. Edgar received his B.A. degree from Davidson College in 1965 and his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 1969. After two years in the army (including a tour of duty in Vietnam), he returned to USC as a post-doctoral fellow of the National Archives, assigned to the Papers of Henry Laurens.