Original sentence: "  This right, at the foundation of the United State's democratic form of government, applies to academics like Professor Churchill, media personalities like Bill O'Reilly and to the average person.A recent study entitled the ”The Future of the First Amendment,” commissioned by the John S.An editorial appearing in the March 11, 2005 edition of the Rocky Mountain News, by Rodney Muth, states "In our culture, it is through free exchanges, even clashes, of ideas that intellectual progress is made, knowledge is advanced, wisdom is achieved and truth revealed.As many commentators have pointed out, if Churchill keeps his job it will be because protecting speech that we dislike is the price we must pay to protect all speech.Central to the debate over Churchill's now famous essay are questions relating to freedom of speech and academic freedom.Knight Foundation, finds high-school students particularly ignorant about the First Amendment.The United States Constitution's 1st Ammendment explicity states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.and James L