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is necessary for self-government in democratic societies, whereby citizens need to be able to freely propose ideas, express their preferences, and criticize those in power.

The second major justification of free speech is the popular sovereignty argument, a view of speech rights championed by Alexander Meiklejohn (1960). Free speech rights, under this theory, grow out of a community's right to govern itself in democratic societies. To actualize self-government, citizens need to be able to freely propose ideas, express their preferences, and criticize those in power.

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