Which poet’s work influenced the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment?
John Milton
Robert Burns
Edgar Allen Poe
Thomas More
Milton might be best known for “Paradise Lost,” but he also wrote “Areopagitica.” More than 100 years before the drafting of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the Brit argued for the importance of freedom of the press.
Legal scholars believe this pamphlet inspired the First Amendment, the decision that Congress cannot abridge the freedom of speech or of the press (among other personal freedoms).
Answer: The correct answer is John Milton