“The government of the United States can claim no powers which are not granted to it by the Constitution, and the powers actually granted must be such as are expressly given or given by necessary implication.”
Voting rights groups in Georgia were successful in stopping State election officials from using Social Security numbers and driver’s license data to check voters’ immigration status. Advocacy groups had told a federal three-judge panel that using the data to verify whether voters are citizens amounts to a “systematic purging” of voting rolls that must be [...]
Summary: Freedom of Speech or of the Press can be defined as freedom from government treating written or spoken words critical of government affairs a punishable crime because it is considered injurious to government. Under common law, people had to be careful of any criticism they wrote or said against government or its officials out [...]