land of the free was written by an amateur poet while he had an America-boner watching actual soldiers fighting
his poem was adopted posthumously 120 years later to boost morale
it has nothing to do with anything and relies on comparison to the most mismanaged countries in the world to justify a perpetuation of its flaws
we’ve gotten lucky with 1st amendment rulings over the last 100 years to perpetuate strong protections there and haven't had a military coup, but thats pretty much it. case in point, by 1910 the supreme court ruled that motion pictures had no 1st amendment protections, not overruling itself until the mid 1950s. anything can happen unless we button up the constitution with finely tailored amendments
his poem was adopted posthumously 120 years later to boost morale
it has nothing to do with anything and relies on comparison to the most mismanaged countries in the world to justify a perpetuation of its flaws
we’ve gotten lucky with 1st amendment rulings over the last 100 years to perpetuate strong protections there and haven't had a military coup, but thats pretty much it. case in point, by 1910 the supreme court ruled that motion pictures had no 1st amendment protections, not overruling itself until the mid 1950s. anything can happen unless we button up the constitution with finely tailored amendments