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First Amendment

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute

First Amendment Center

The First Amendment Library
The First Amendment Library’s goal is to enhance the public’s understanding of the 45 words of the First Amendment and to do so in impartial, historical, analytical, practical, and accessible ways. FIRE’s First Amendment Library provides visitors core information about the First Amendment’s five freedoms: religion, speech, press, assembly, & petition.
Interactive Constitution - The First Amendment
The Interactive Constitution is brought to us by the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA. https://constitutioncenter.org/

Archives - United States Consitution

T he Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution from the National Archives.

Books from the Catalog

The First Amendment by Daniel Farber
Call Number: KF4770 .F556 2010
ISBN: 9781599417516
Publication Date: 2010
Located in the Library at the Center for the Study of Religious Freedom. Clarke Hall.
The First Amendment in cross-cultural perspective : a comparative legal analysis of the freedom of speech by Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr.
Call Number: K3254 .K76 2006
ISBN: 0814747876
The uniquely American sense of freedom that makes the First Amendment so beloved and so respected in its homeland is precisely what makes it a difficult model for constitutional protection of expression in other political systems.
The trials of academe: the new era of campus litigation [electronic resource] by Amy Gajda
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 0674035674
Publication Date: 2009
May need to sign in to/create an Ebsco account to view this book from off campus.
Speaking Our Minds by Joseph Russomanno
Call Number: KF4770 .A7 R87 2002
ISBN: 080583768X
Publication Date: 2002-03-01
Interviews with the people at the core of influential First Amendment cases, their stories in a personal, in-depth oral history of First Amendment law.
Freedom for the Thought That We Hate by Anthony Lewis
Call Number: KF4770 .L49 2007
ISBN: 0465039170
Publication Date: 2008-01-08
Anthony Lewis tells the story of legal and political conflict, hard choices, and determined, sometimes eccentric Americans who led the legal system to realize one of America's great founding ideas.