First Amendment

Rather it was the state's promotion of religious practices in the public school in and of itself that violated the First Amendment.

He deplores the documents' release, but said the very real damage they does not warrant prosecution in light of the First Amendment.

WikiLeaks seems to be hoping that by calling itself a news organisation it will be protected by the First Amendment.

The First Amendment of our Constitution established the freedom of religion as the law of the land.

Among the freedoms declared in the American Constitution, the expression freedom of the First Amendment is in the center position.

They said the two thousand five law violated the free speech guarantee in the First Amendment to the Constitution.

And the U. S. First Amendment is clear that publishers have the right to tell the people what is going on.

He would go on to formulate an expansive and influential interpretation of the First Amendment.

"Twitter will probably just ignore it and consider it to be offensive to their First Amendment rights, " he said.

The First Amendment may suffer a bit in the hands of a generation raised on speech codes and political correctness.

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information .

While everyone agrees that the First Amendment prohibits the creation of a government-supported church, agreement essentially ends there.

The First Amendment's Press Clause continues to be a structural bulwark of democracy and of the people.

The words of the First Amendment to the Constitution are carved in 50 tons of Tennessee marble on the front of this building.

But a federal appeals court overturned the judgment on First Amendment grounds, saying the Constitution protected Westboro's speech.

The cumbersome process and cacophany of messages is all about honoring the First Amendment to them.

The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees free speech and a free press. Yet Lincoln briefly closed some newspapers.

Professor Baker was considered one of the country's foremost authorities on the First Amendment and on mass media policy.

In the United States, such a law would likely conflict with the freedom of speech that is guaranteed in the First Amendment.

This is not unlike the rest of Europe, but it is shockingly different for Americans used to the First Amendment's protection of free speech.

In addition, such fines also produce the kind of "chilling effect" First Amendment doctrine abhors.

The decision was the latest in a series of muscular First Amendment rulings from the Roberts court.

The city's action is a brazen violation of the First Amendment, which guarantees free worship without government intervention.

Generally, courts have held that the First Amendment does not give people of faith a blank check to ignore the law.

too narrowly and many eligible people will not be covered, explains Floyd Abrams, a first-amendment lawyer.

A free press is essential in a free state, but an irresponsible press can destroy the principles the First Amendment attempts to safeguard.

The prisoner himself wrote a short handwritten note saying his first amendment rights had been violated.

In his dissent, Justice Alito likened the protest to fighting words, which are not protected by the First Amendment.

Fear of radicals led to Red scares that seriously curtailed First Amendment rights after both the First and Second World Wars.

But other feminists defend pornography on First Amendment or "sex-positive" grounds, and support women's freedom to "choose" prostitution.

This week a group of artists filed a lawsuit challenging his decision as a violation of the first amendment.

One of those values is the freedom to practice your religion -- a right that is enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution.

In that case, a sharply divided court ruled that the website contained "true threats" that were not protected by the first amendment.

If the first amendment means anything, she reckons, it surely protects the right of Americans to talk politics with their neighbours.

The court altered its interpretation of the First Amendment .

Prosecutions for truthful speech on matters of public interest are almost certainly barred by the First Amendment.

To allow the judgment to stand, in other words, would have a severe "chilling" effect on the First Amendment right of a free press.

That is a situation that the Framers of the First Amendment, members of the Court, and most Americans are determined to avoid.

A related problem with the dissent's approach arises in connection with First Amendment "chilling effects. "

it does not offer the strong free-speech defence that America's first amendment provides.

Lessig maintained that Congress violated the Constitution's Copyright Clause and the First Amendment when it passed the extension.

We consider whether a California law imposing restrictions on violent video games comports with the First Amendment .

The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.

In 1980, the first amendment to the Marriage Law was issued. Incompatibility was written into the articles of the new Marriage Law.

The case was a test of how far the First Amendment goes in protecting offensive speech.

In reality, of course, the First Amendment means what the U. S. Supreme Court says it means.

Charles Haynes is a senior scholar at the First Amendment Center, a group that studies free expression issues.

These guarantees are included in what are called the Free Exercise and Establishment clauses of the Constitution's First Amendment.

The defendant, 37-year-old Johnny Logan Spencer Jr. of Louisville, had argued that the poem was protected by the First Amendment.

The First Amendment required that political speech be unfettered, so the same was required for political spending.

The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, speech, and the press, the rights of peaceful assembly and petition.

The First Amendment to the Constitution expressly forbids such legislation.

These two aims are the basis for the First Amendment's religion clauses.

The First Amendment gives binding force to this principle of political wisdom.

to make end runs around the First Amendment.

The majority opinion said such limits violated First Amendment rights.

"The whole issue of whether or not I am a journalist is irrelevant: the first amendment was written to protect pamphleteers, " says Mr Wolf.

From the perspective of classical First Amendment theory, some cases are easy.

The survey found more people could name the three "American Idol" judges than identify three First Amendment rights.

On Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo also defended the group's First Amendment rights.

The first amendment is perhaps the most well known and most crucial amendment to America's democracy.

Is obscene material covered by the First Amendment's umbrella?

Americans apparently know more about "The Simpsons" than they do about the First Amendment.

Free-speech enthusiasts fear that unless the first amendment is jealously guarded, it will be abused.

The case again reminds Americans that while the First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech, a wrong choice of word might ignite a bomb.

There were serious First Amendment issues.

What rights does the first amendment guarantee?

You realize you're messing with the First Amendment now.

But school officials under the First Amendment may not take sides in religion.

Clay Calvert, a professor of First Amendment law at the University of Florida, helped explain the suit.

S. First Amendment is that Congress shall make no law in relating to restriction of freedom of speech or press.

And it is clearly political speech, which the constitution's first amendment unambiguously protects.

Today, we had on the first amendment and MV the second step of planning.

The right of the people peaceably to assemble is enshrined in the first amendment.

There are two religion clauses in the First Amendment.

The First Amendment and nine other amendments make up the Bill of Rights, which was adopted in 1791.

That is one reason they put the First Amendment first.

But is this the type of material the First Amendment was intended to protect?

Demarcation Line Between Rights: A Perspective of the First Amendment to US Constitution

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1791, is similarly absolute

First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution

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Institute for First Amendment Studies

Center for First Amendment Studies

What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment? *

The First Amendment right of free speech