Freedom of speech, as most of us constitutional scholars know, is embedded in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. It’s there with the other big ones, such as freedom of ...

The Constitution Annotated: First Amendment Fundamental Freedoms and the Complexity of Protections. Arguably, the most misinterpreted part of freedom of speech is what is protected and what is not.

Here are three rules you should know about "Hate Speech" and the First Amendment: Rule 1. The First Amendment protects all ideas, loving, hateful, or in between. In the United States, "hate speech ...

What exactly did the Framers mean by “freedom of speech, or of the press”? Little is definitively known about the subject. The debates in the First Congress, which proposed the Bill of Rights ...

Burt looks at how Freedom of Speech became central to the US creed. 1 Freedom of Speech is central to Burt’s work, which is why he put together two programs dealing with the subject. In this ...

As we prepare to celebrate America’s birth, we wanted to take a look at what the freedom of speech looks like in today’s society. Our First Amendment right has recently made some headlines ...

April 7, 2025 • Many Americans worry freedom of speech is fading, while others feel empowered to say what they want. NPR's Morning Edition explores this dynamic in a new series, The State of the ...

FILE – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at Miami’s Freedom Tower, on Monday, May 9, 2022. A Florida law intended to punish social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter is an unconstitutional ...

Many Americans worry freedom of speech is fading, while others feel empowered to say what they want. NPR's Morning Edition explores this dynamic in a new series, The State of the First Amendment.

The First Amendment: Freedom of Speech. 09/02/2021 | 14m Video has Closed Captions | CC. In 1989, rap group 2 Live Crew was charged with obscenity over lyrics on their album As Nasty as They Wanna Be.

This is something of an obvious point, but it's worth repeating, it seems to me. Lots of laypeople, in my experience, talk about private speech restrictions as violations of the First Amendment.