Georgia: Right to Speak

Horace Julian Bond is a young man who likes to speak his mind. As it hap pens, some of the things that Bond, 26, a Negro pacifist and civil rights worker, has on his mind -sympathy for draft-card burners and extreme opposition to the war in Viet Nam - proved highly unpalatable to the Georgia house of representatives. Twice this year house members voted against allowing him to sit among them as the duly elected member from Atlanta's 136th Legisla tive District.

Last week the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Georgia house violated Bond's First Amendment guar antee of...

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