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Background
The protection for [[free speech]] was largely motivated to safeguard the preaching of the [[Bible]]. Several passages in the Bible, both [[Old Testament]] and [[New|New Testament]], support a right of free speech, including Numbers 11:26-30 (Moses allowed free speech by declaring, "If only all the people of the LORD were prophets!");<ref>[[NAB]] version quoted above.</ref> Mark 9:38-41 (admonition by [[Jesus]] not to stop strangers who cast out evil in his name).
The protection for [[free speech]] was largely motivated to safeguard the preaching of the [[Bible]]. Several passages in the Bible, both [[Old Testament]] and [[New|New Testament]], support a right of free speech, including Numbers 11:26-30 (Moses allowed free speech by declaring, "If only all the people of the LORD were prophets!");<ref>[[NAB]] version quoted above.</ref> Mark 9:38-41 (admonition by [[Jesus]] not to stop strangers who cast out evil in his name).
==Background==
A group of colonial leaders known as the [[Anti-Federalists]] expressed concern that the Constitution contained no guarantee of individual liberties, and they pressed for the document to be amended. Their insistence led to the creation of the [[Bill of Rights]] by [[James Madison]] in 1791.<ref>http://www.cas.unt.edu/~jryan/AntiFeds.html</ref>
Madison was the principal author of the Bill of Rights, including the First Amendment.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=d_Nyi_Ur3pAC&pg=PA267 The Columbia Documentary History of Religion in America Since 1945]</ref><ref>[http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-documents/bill-of-rights/ Bill of Rights of the United States of America (1791)]</ref>
== Conservative Interpretation ==
== Conservative Interpretation ==