The socialism implicit in the slogan of the Roosevelt Revolution, freedom from want and fear, seems a far cry from the individualism of the First Amendment to the Constitution, or of the Jacksonian frontier.

In 2008 she was awarded the Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award by the Ford Hall Forum.

The Sedition Act of 1798 and the Incorporation of Seditious Libel into First Amendment Jurisprudence.

The Supreme Court of the United States held in its landmark case, McGowan v. Maryland ( 1961 ), that Maryland's blue laws violated neither the Free Exercise Clause nor the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

To consider but one example, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution states " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof "— but interpretation ( that is, determining the fine boundaries, and resolving the tension between the " establishment " and " free exercise " clauses ) of each of the important terms was delegated by Article III of the Constitution to the judicial branch, so that the current legal boundaries of the Constitutional text can only be determined by consulting the common law.

Protesters arrested in the 1998 incident subsequently fought and lost a lawsuit alleging that their First Amendment rights had been violated.

In 1998, a United States federal district court in Virginia ruled that the imposition of mandatory filtering in a public library violates the First Amendment of the U. S. Bill of Rights.

Civil liberties groups challenged the law under the First Amendment and in 1997 the Supreme Court ruled in their favor.

Many legal scholars believe that a number of legal cases, in particular Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, established that the use of content-control software in libraries is a violation of the First Amendment.

The Children's Internet Protection Act and the June 2003 case United States v. American Library Association found CIPA constitutional as a condition placed on the receipt of federal funding, stating that First Amendment concerns were dispelled by the law's provision that allowed adult library users to have the filtering software disabled, without having to explain the reasons for their request.

* Peacefire, a U. S .- based website dedicated to " preserving First Amendment rights for Internet users, particularly those younger than 18 "

In the United States, because of the broad protections granted by the First Amendment, with extremely limited exceptions, unless the media outlet is a party to the case, a media outlet cannot be found in contempt of court for reporting about a case because a court cannot order the media in general not to report on a case or forbid it from reporting facts discovered publicly.

In the United States, Enlightenment philosophy ( which itself was heavily inspired by deist ideals ) played a major role in creating the principle of religious freedom, expressed in Thomas Jefferson's letters and included in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

On September 24, 1789, the House of Representatives voted to recommend the First Amendment of the newly drafted Constitution to the states for ratification.

" It would be strange law that a person would not have a First Amendment right to use information that is available to everyone ," a three-judge panel said in its ruling.

His inclusion of the latter two freedoms went beyond the traditional US Constitutional values protected by its First Amendment, and endorsed a right to economic security and an internationalist view of foreign policy.

The question of what can and cannot be legitimately called science is of major importance in this debate because the First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits teaching of religion in public schools.

Kelly was a lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party which occasionally created difficulty for him as his period of greatest prominence coincided with the McCarthy era in the U. S. In 1947, he was part of the Committee for the First Amendment, the Hollywood delegation which flew to Washington to protest at the first official hearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

A federal appeals court denied the plaintiffs an injunction ( Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin ) against publication on the basis that the book was parody and therefore protected by the First Amendment.

On December 15, 2006, the college filed a federal lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, alleging that a decision by the state to block the college from participating in the state sponsored CareerLink job service amounted to a violation of the college's First Amendment rights.

Bogart, a liberal Democrat, organized a delegation to Washington, D. C., called the Committee for the First Amendment, against the House Un-American Activities Committee's harassment of Hollywood screenwriters and actors.

The federal police have asked permission from the FBI to crack down these sites, but the FBI denied, stating that the First Amendment guarantees the right to any speech, even if it involves racism.

Laws prohibiting hate speech are unconstitutional in the United States ; the United States federal government and state governments are forbidden by the First Amendment of the Constitution from restricting speech .< ref >

The Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award was created by Christie Hefner " to honor individuals who have made significant contributions in the vital effort to protect and enhance First Amendment rights for Americans.

The majority argued that the First Amendment protects associations of individuals as well as individual speakers, and further that the First Amendment does not allow prohibitions of speech based on the identity of the speaker.

One objection states that a democratic republic built on freedom of dissent should not require its citizens to pledge allegiance to it, and that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects one's right to refrain from speaking or standing ( also a form of speech ).

On Trantor, Stor Gendibal, a rising intellect in the Second Foundation hierarchy, discovers a secret he reveals to Quindor Shandess, the current First Speaker — that the Seldon Plan, which the Second Foundation diligently protects and furthers along, is being manipulated by some unknown group, one possibly more powerful than the Second Foundation, and whose reasons for so doing are not known.

* Second, even if the Boy Scouts discourages Scout leaders from disseminating views on sexual issues, the First Amendment protects the Boy Scouts ' method of expression.

First he discovers an unwanted visitor-then he protects the Seven as they spy on a thief late at night in Bramley woods!

* In the 2009 case of James " Jim " Brown v. Electronic Arts, Inc., the District Court of the Central District of California dismissed athlete Jim Brown's theory of false endorsement under the Lanham Act and determined that the First Amendment protects the unauthorized use of a trademark in an artistic work when the mark has artistic relevance to the work and does not explicitly mislead as to the source or content of the work.

The Chancery Court held that the statute violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which protects citizens from state interference with freedom of speech and thought as contained in the constitution's First Amendment.

In both cases, the Court held that the First Amendment protects flag desecration.

At the time, FIRE called the University Code of Conduct “ illegally overbroad .” They considered the code to be in violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution which protects offensive speech.

He writes that the First Amendment protects creators against state control and copyright law, when properly balanced, protects creators against private control.

That court overturned his conviction, saying that the State could not punish Johnson for burning the flag because the First Amendment protects such activity as symbolic speech.

In the video, the soldier identified himself as " Private First Class Keith Matthew Maupin ", a standard procedure followed by prisoners of war that protects their rights under the Third Geneva Convention.

The First Amendment only protects employees from government employers albeit only when speaking publicly outside their official duties in the public interest Pickering v. Board of Ed.

Justice Harlan is credited for the establishing that the First Amendment protects the freedom of association.

A typical residential water meterMetering of water supply is usually motivated by one or several of four objectives: First, it provides an incentive to conserve water which protects water resources ( environmental objective ).

First conducted in the 1950s by Knox professor Paul Shepard, the burn protects prairie grasses from intrusions of woodland scrub and competition with " exotic " species that have been introduced to Illinois from other regions or countries — to the detriment of organisms that have evolved over millions of years in delicate balance with the environment and each other.

Martin Kaste, the National Public Radio's South America correspondent, reported on April 9, 2002 that since their announcement that they were going to sue Fox, the Riotur officials had been told by their lawyers in the United States that it would be difficult to sue the episode there because of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which protects parodies.

In the majority opinion, Judge Sentelle found Abrams ' assertion that a First Amendment privilege protects Matthew Cooper and Judith Miller from the subpoena to lack merit.

The First Amendment to the US Constitution protects freedom of speech.

First Landing State Park occupies and protects the rest of the cape itself, as well as some of the nearby area.