The National Constitution Center is now home to a 50-ton marble tablet, engraved with the 45 words of the #FirstAmendment to the U.S. Constitution. MSNBC’s Ali Velshi and President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen discuss why the founding generation sought to protect the expression of opinion, how that sentiment led to the First Amendment, and the importance of nurturing #freespeech. Jeffrey Rosen recalls quotations from Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Louis Brandeis in the landmark Supreme Court case Whitney v. California. To learn more about protecting the First Amendment today, watch free speech experts Adam Liptak, Nadine Strossen, and Robert Corne-Revere discuss censorship in a recent #AmericasTownHall program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUNn2POQKhk Visit our media library to discover more online classes, podcasts, and Town Hall conversations: https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/media-library Subscribe to the National Constitution Center on YouTube: null Follow the National Constitution Center on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/constitutionctr/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConstitutionCtr Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/constitutionctr/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=001isJLcA0NBDU2D_HGg2ohDtUUbfEfE-Gpl9t1---7rRBAsT4f5B7IV2UbsNZFPIVvYFY1ZtLK4zENNfTuda3Z_WJBoefPS8mnvM8KMyfAOq4%3D