creating a knowledgeable public; for engenderinghealthy, rational, and informed debate; for holding powerful people and institutionsaccountable; for keeping communities lively and vibran
This can be complicated by a more critical reading of these texts, and looking at who was able to practice the democratic process and speech. While it was written in this way it was not enacted in that way, as best put by MLK "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed". this is that their is a separation from what was written and what was enacted for all of time.