First Amendment

English 2016 September 28 thumb|The First Amendment to the United States Constitution inscribed on the facade of the Newseum in Washington, D.C., USA Alternative forms en 1A abbreviation en 1st Amendment Pronunciation en en-au-First Amendment.ogg AU en First A mend ment Proper noun 1 first amendment The amendment to the constitution of the United States pertaining to freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of the press. en The claimant believed his First Amendment rights had been violated, but the judge was unsure of whether it was a First Amendment issue. en Our First Amendment class discussed the McCain-Feingold Act today, and I'm convinced people who claim money should be granted First Amendment protection are just defending the corrupt status quo of decades past. en Circuit Judge William Burnham Woods The Power of Congress to Pass the Enforcement Act—The Fourteenth Amendment Construed—The Rights of Citizens of the States and United States Considered.—The United States v. John Hall, Jr., and William Pettigrew. Heard before Woods, Circuit, and Busteed, District JJ., on demurrer to the indictment. [U.S. Circuit Court, 8. D. of Alabama.] The Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal: A Weekly Register of Official Information on Internal Revenue and Customs New York, N.Y. W[illiam] C[onant] & F[rancis] P[harcellus] Church, publishers, office, no. 39 Park Row May 1871 XIII 182, column 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=HZstAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA182 1589245 What are the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States here referred to [in the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]? Among these we are safe in including those which in the Constitution are expressly secured to the people, either as against the action of the Federal or State governments. Included in these are the rights of freedom of speech, and the right peaceably to assemble. We find that Congress is forbidden to impair them by the first amendment, and the States are forbidden to impair them by the fourteenth amendment. en Thomas A. Schwartz A Reconceptualization of the First Amendment: The Burger Court and Freedom of the Press, 1969–1980 unpublished Ph.D. dissertation Carbondale, Ill. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale 1981 224 8270020 One scholar has noted that the [Warren Earl] Burger Court has invalidated more statutes on First Amendment grounds than any previous "court" en Clyde E. Willis Preface Student's Guide to Landmark Congressional Laws on the First Amendment Student's Guide to Landmark Congressional Laws Westport, Conn. Greenwood Press 2002 978-0-313-31416-2 We have enshrined some of the most cherished rights of Americans in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, including freedom of religion, speech, press, the right to assemble, and petition the government for a redress of grievances. en David A[listair] Yalof; Kenneth Dautrich Preface and Acknowledgements The First Amendment and the Media in the Court of Public Opinion Cambridge w:Cambridge University Press 2002 viii 978-0-521-80466-0 By considering public opinion data on free press rights against the backdrop of modern First Amendment jurisprudence, we seek to offer new and original insights into the nature of popular support for these rights – and, in the process, we hope to provide a more sophisticated understanding of how the U.S. democratic system actually works en Timothy Zick Exporting the First Amendment The Cosmopolitan First Amendment: Protecting Transborder Expressive and Religious Liberties New York, N.Y. Cambridge University Press 2014 346 978-1-107-01232-5 The United States has generally not been successful in terms of exporting the First Amendment in the formal or legal sense, even to western democracies with which it shares much in common. Although they have rejected many of the First Amendment’s doctrines and standards, many nations have embraced its general norms, principles, and ideals. Indeed, the American First Amendment has had a profound and lasting effect on expressive and religious liberties throughout the world. en 2019-07-29 Elizabeth Nolan Brown Reason (magazine) Reason https://reason.com/2019/07/29/section-230-is-the-internets-first-amendment-now-both-republicans-and-democrats-want-to-take-it-away/ Section 230 Is the Internet's First Amendment. Now Both Republicans and Democrats Want To Take It Away. Under the CDA, telecommunications facilities could face criminal charges if they failed to take "good faith, reasonable, effective, and appropriate actions" to stop minors from seeing indecent content. The law faced a First Amendment challenge, and the U.S. Supreme Court in late 1997 struck down many of the decency provisions entirely. https://web.archive.org/web/20210307004622/https://reason.com/2019/07/29/section-230-is-the-internets-first-amendment-now-both-republicans-and-democrats-want-to-take-it-away/ en Trump bans burning of US flag in defiance of constitutional protections w:Al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/25/trump-bans-burning-of-us-flag-in-defiance-of-constitutional-protections 2025-08-25 “President Trump may believe he has the power to revise the First Amendment with the stroke of a pen, but he doesn’t,” the free speech advocacy group FIRE said in a statement. https://web.archive.org/web/20250831005234/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/25/trump-bans-burning-of-us-flag-in-defiance-of-constitutional-protections Meronyms en Establishment Clause en Free Exercise Clause Derived terms en First Amendment audit en First Amendment auditor Translations part of the US Constitution Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 第一修正案 Japanese: ja Further reading n en Freedom of speech One US politics