Virtually every flashpoint in American politics right now involves the First Amendment right to free speech and free ...

Image: Carlos Barria/Reuters The First Amendment, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, provides that no government agency can abridge the freedom of speech. This important freedom has two parts.

Free speech debates are all around us.What were the Founding Fathers thinking when they created the First Amendment, and how have the words they wrote in the 18th century been stretched and shaped ...

Americans deeply value their First ... the First Amendment.” The differences in opinion come most in the details, according to Goldberg. While many respondents know of freedom of speech, many ...

The first ten amendments of the Constitution were approved after 11 of the 14 states in the Union approved the amendments.

Many Americans are worried that their First Amendment right to free speech ... was to sign an executive order aimed at "restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship." ...

"The First Amendment is spinning out of control," Columbia law professor Tim Wu warns in a New York Times essay. While Wu ostensibly objects to Supreme Court decisions that he thinks have ...

To answer those questions, we should turn to the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which states that Congress “shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.” Those words ...

Mr. Sunstein is a law professor at Harvard and the author of “Campus Free Speech: A Pocket Guide.” Last spring, protests at numerous American universities, prompted by the ongoing conflict in ...