...constitutional guarantee of a free press. The Illinois Constitution's Declaration of Rights, section 22, stated: The printing presses shall be free to every person, who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the General Assembly or of any branch of government; and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right...

...removable at their pleasure, and to be commissioned by the President in Council. SECTION the Thirty-fifth. THE Printing Presses shall be Free to every person...the proceedings of the legislature, or any part of government. SECTION the Thirty-sixth. As every Freeman, to preserve his Independence, (if without a...

...inviolably preserved" (Schwartz, 378). means of communication. When Pennsylvania's 1790 Constitution says that "the printing presses shall be free to every...examine the proceedings of the legislature, or any branch of government," it means that government may not stand in the way of any person or organization...

...amendment was written and ratified.3 The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1790 was typical in this respect: That the printing presses shall be free to every person...examine the proceedings of the legislature or any branch of government: and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free communication...

...government certainly was written with the idea of "scrutiny of government" in mind where it states, "The printing presses shall be free to every person...the proceedings of the legislature, or any part of government." This is what Tim Cook calls in his introductory essay the "watchdog" model of press freedom....