Mr. President. today the Senator from Illinois. Mr. SIMON. and I Introduced a bill amending the Ideological exclusions in the McCarranWalter Immigration Act and restrictions on travel in the Passport Act. and removing restrictions on the import and export of Information. The thread that ties all of these changes together is an ideal embodied in the first amendment: The removal of barriers that Inhibit the free exchange of ideas across international frontiers. A free trade In ideas. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote. Is the theory underlying our Constitution: When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths. they may come to believe the very foundation of their own conduct: that the ultimate good desired is better reached by the free trade in ideasthat the best test of truth is the power of thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market. and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes can safely be carried out.
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