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The First Amendment Gone Wild: Big Pharma's 'Right' to Find Out What Doctors Are Prescribing

The founders of the United States took the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the concepts of free speech and freedom of conscience very seriously.

"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech," said Benjamin Franklin.

"Information is the currency of democracy," intoned Thomas Jefferson -- one of countless Jefferson odes to the central importance of ideas and free transmission of information in fostering a working democracy.