The First Amendment Works for You

Starts: January 23, 2018 at 12:00 pm
Ends: January 23, 2018 at 2:00 pm

Unlike any other revolutionaries in history, America’s Founding Fathers didn’t keep the power to themselves; they enshrined our liberties in the Bill of Rights.

On Tuesday, Jan. 23, join veteran journalist Denis Horgan and lawyer Dan Klau from the Connecticut Foundation for Open Government for a discussion about how the First Amendment protects we the people from losing the right to speak out, to have a voice and to know what the government is doing.

This liberty is always under attack at so many levels, possibly never more so than today. Where did this previous right come from? How can you make it work? How can you defend it? The program’s two speakers are stalwart defenders of the First Amendment and will lead a wide-ranging and helpful discussion of the core values that distinguishes this nation from all others.

This free program is co-hosted by the Connecticut Foundation for Open Government and begins at noon at Connecticut’s Old State House, 800 Main St., Hartford.