The First Amendment is only 45 words long, yet 235 years of court battles have left Americans fiercely devoted to an idea ...

The First Amendment says that "Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech." But one prominent conservative judge, whose name has been mentioned as a possible U.S. Supreme Court nominee ...

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting; the free exercise thereof; or abridging the ...

We are living through a profound and accelerating test of the First Amendment. Across the country, people exercising their constitutional rights to speak, protest, and record public activity are ...

Mahmoud Khalil's detainment has sparked a fiery First Amendment debate over the free speech rights of non-citizens.

Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison advocating a Bill of Rights: "Half a loaf is better than no bread. If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can." Congress shall make no law ...

From protests and journalism to social media and campus speech, explore how the First Amendment safeguards everyone — including immigrants — and what it actually covers. The First Amendment is a ...

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 ...

Donald Nieman receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is affiliated with Braver Angels. Bipartisan agreement is rare in these ...

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting; the free exercise thereof; or abridging the ...