John Peter Zenger and the Defense of the Press.

Cobblestone | January 1, 1999| | Copyright

More than fifty year's before the Bill of Rights was ratified, John Peter Zenger went to prison for nine months because he printed the truth. John Peter Zenger was a German immigrant who, in 1710, came to New York at the age of thirteen. Shortly after the Zenger family arrived in America, John Peter was apprenticed to a printer. In 1719, Zenger completed his apprenticeship and moved to Maryland. He returned to New York in 1726 and established his own printing business.

Meanwhile, dissent (disagreement) began brewing in the New York colony. The king of England had ...

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