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So one part:
This was not the viewpoint that led to the creation of the first amendment and all. The actual viewpoint of the founding fathers was that certain things are just inseparable parts of being human -- you're going to talk with people around you, if you're so inclined.
It's not for a government to "regulate" what people are and aren't allowed to say to one another, any more than they could regulate how many bones are in the body. A lot of those foundational documents weren't meant to lay out what the government would and wouldn't allow people to do and the boundaries of government's permissible control -- they were simple acknowledgements of the reality that they were outside the possible control of any government, and that a government that tried to tell people they could say certain things to each other but not other things, was engaged in an impossibility (as well as betraying its own illegitimacy to govern).