NOUN
- an amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right of free expression; includes freedom of assembly and freedom of the press and freedom of religion and freedom of speech
How To Use First Amendment In A Sentence
- After that, Feingold joined a Madison law firm and practiced civil litigation, including First Amendment law.
- For example, according to the First Amendment, Congress shall make no law abridging free speech.
- The questions at issue in the administrative hearing are whether an adult teacher in the course of his classroom behavior (a) willfully or neglectfully injured a child, (b) was insubordinate toward the administration, (c) violated the guidelnes for his behavior in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and/or (d) violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment in his display of religious items and posters, including multiple instances of the Ten Commandments, in his classroom. Freshwater: Playing fast and loose with the truth - The Panda's Thumb
- Anita Dung is Obama's Joseph Goebbels. How dare these Marxist traitors dismantle our Constitution, and our First Amendment! ! !
- Is speech that advocates violence at the center of the First Amendment, or at its periphery?
- If any of these three prongs is violated, the government’s action is deemed unconstitutional under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Think Progress » Senate Suspended Right to Challenge Detention After A Single Hour of Debate
- Nevertheless, all major networks signed on to the war effort with embarrassingly little resistance, the First Amendment taking second place to their fear of public excoriation by the President.
- Seen this way, the First Amendment is a two-edged sword that prevents government from inhibiting religious expression, but also limits the scope of religious authority to ecclesiastical affairs.
- Mr. Helm plans to assert that the bill violates the First Amendment.
- Eugene, this post demonstrates the very real conflict between the First Amendment and the speech-as-violation jurisprudence that has accreted under Title VII and similar laws. The Volokh Conspiracy » Anonymous Comments and Modern Tort Law and Antidiscrimination Law
