Some of the rules and regulations about free speech back in colonial Virginia were pretty harsh. They also seemed to mix a lot of religion in with the free speech as well. Although they are very strict I can’t help but wonder just how strict they really were back in those times. As time changes so do the rules; one example is the rule forbidding any negative talk about ones Government figure, today that isn’t a rule and a person can say or print just about anything they want about our President. I wonder if a rule like that back then was really as bad as a rule like that would be now. While we read these rules everyone talked about how strict these rules were and about how awful they were but I wonder if at the time they really weren’t that bad. Also what will our current free speech laws look like in 50 years from now? 100 years from now?
Time changes everything.
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