by Malcolm Wallop

About the author: Malcolm Wallop, a former Republican senator from Wyoming, is chairman of Frontiers for Peace, a public policy organization in Arlington, Virginia, that advocates private property rights and personal freedoms.

Remember Aug. 10, 1995. On that day, a President of the United States used the U.S. Constitution for cheap political gain. On that day, the most sacred of all the amendments to the Constitution, the First Amendment, was forsworn by President Bill Clinton.

White House political gurus stuck their fingers in the air and concluded that there were more nonsmokers in America than smokers. Their simple-minded strategy: Let’s get all the nonsmokers to vote for us. Big-government regulators, such as power-happy Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler, determined that the First Amendment was not a fundamental right but...