Censorship
November, 1993
If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people. --James Madison, 1794I am mortified to be told that in the United States of America a question about the sale of a book can be carried before the civil magistrate. Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold and what we may buy? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or s...
