In our Consititution, citizens have many righhts, but do we have the right to think? In the play Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence adn Robert Lee, a man is on trial for teaching his students about the theory of evolution. Drummond, the lawyer for this man, said "With all respect to the bench, I hold that the right to think is very much on trial." In the small town of Hillsborough most people are …showed first 75 words of 257 total…

…showed last 75 words of 257 total…of the Bible. Drummond does not try to convince the jury that Darwin is right and the Bible is wrong; he wants them to see we have the right to think for ourselves. This case has changed the course of history by eventually changing this law. Drummond was not an atheist; he wanted to protect Darwin's theory or anyone else's idea. We have the right to think, make theories and come to our own conclusions.