A funeral will be the biggest story in America this week.

But, contrary to expectations, it will not be the ceremony mourning the murder of Charlie Kirk. Rather, it will be a memorial service for the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Kirk’s life was too short. He was part of the lives of his family and friends for just 31 years. They will, no doubt, lament his loss.

The First Amendment has been part of all our lives since December 15, 1791, the day the Bill of Rights was ratified. It has been with us 233 years—also not nearly long enough. Now or later, all of us will come to grieve for its passing.

Like Kirk, the First Amendment was murdered in cold blood. Unlike him, it did not die from just a single shot or a lone gunman. As in a fusty old murder mystery, the

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