THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS by James C. Goodale James C. Goodale served as general counsel to The New York Times when the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the Times could continue to publish the then-classified Pentagon Papers. In the following article, Goodale describes several Supreme Court cases in which First Amendment rights have been upheld, allowing the press to pursue its ...

THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION Click Here to Visit our Sponsors. What it says: The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is also the first section of the Bill of Rights. It is arguably the most important part of the U.S. Constitution, as it guarantees freedoms of religion, speech, writing and publishing, peaceful assembly and freedom to raise grievances with the Federal ...

Jefferson's 1777 Draft of a Bill for Religious Freedom Click Here to Visit our Sponsors. The following text is a draft written by Thomas Jefferson in 1777. It promoted religious freedom for the state of Virginia. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison promoted the bill for years before it was finally passed by the Virginia legislature. At the time, the Anglican Church was officially recognized as ...

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