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Which early colonial trial is most associated with the First Amendment’s


idea of freedom of the press?

AThe trial of John Peter Zenger

BThe trial of Anne Hutchinson

CThe Salem Witch Trials

DThe Boston Massacre trial

EJames Otis’s challenge of writs of assistance

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It would be "(A) The trial of John Peter Zenger" that is most associated with the First Amendment’s idea of freedom of the press, since Zenger was a printer and journalist who was accused (and later acquitted) or writing slanderous attacks against the colonial government. 

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