Among our nation's "firsts" were the introduction of the separation of church and state and George Washington's proclamation ...
The Brennan Center fights to protect the rights to free speech and freedom of the press. The rights to free speech, protest, ...
My earlier posts on my book Constitutional Symmetry explained the basic idea of favoring symmetry and summarized the practical and theoretical reasons for this approach. In addition to advancing this ...
The framers of the Constitution added ten amendments, called the Bill of Rights, to protect individuals’ rights from being infringed by the government. A democratic government is one in which the ...
In 1791, when Congressman James Madison was drafting the first 10 amendments to the Constitution — which would become known as the Bill of Rights — he insisted that the most prominent amendment among ...
In 1953, the physicist Albert Einstein became instrumental in revitalizing the force of the First Amendment as a rhetorical and legal tactic in the congressional hearings. Having fled Germany after ...
A recently passed resolution to limit free speech demonstrates how little the state Republican Party believes in the First Amendment, writes columnist Rod Miller.
Why free speech rights got left out of the Constitution – and added in later via the First Amendment
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Donald Nieman, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE CONVERSATION) ...
Constitution Day is not a federal holiday, and it’s a day that passes by, for the most part, without any fanfare. Most likely, many Americans don’t even realize it is celebrated annually on Sept. 17, ...
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