enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Freedom of speech in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the...

    During colonial times, English speech regulations were rather restrictive.The English criminal common law of seditious libel made criticizing the government a crime. Lord Chief Justice John Holt, writing in 1704–1705, explained the rationale for the prohibition: "For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion of it."

  3. United States free speech exceptions - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech...

    On entry across borders, the government may bar non-citizens from the United States based on their speech, even if that speech would have been protected if said by a citizen. [84] Speech rules as to deportation, on the other hand, are unclear. [85] Lower courts are divided on the question, while the leading cases on the subject are from the Red ...

  4. First Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the...

    The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting the free exercise of religion; or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.

  5. Freedom of speech - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

    Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate ... speech protections in the United States almost ...

  6. Justice Alito warns of declining support for freedom of ...

    www.aol.com/news/justice-alito-warns-declining...

    Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Saturday warned that support for freedom of speech is "declining dangerously," especially on college campuses, as part of a commencement address ...

  7. Hate speech in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_in_the_United...

    Hate speech in the United States cannot be directly regulated by the government due to the fundamental right to freedom of speech protected by the Constitution. [1] While "hate speech" is not a legal term in the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that most of what would qualify as hate speech in other western countries is legally protected speech under the First Amendment.

  8. Censorship in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/.../Censorship_in_the_United_States

    Free speech zones are and have been used in the past and in the present by institutions of higher education in the United States, which has led to organizations like the ACLU and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) to object to these as infringements of freedom of speech, and of academic freedom.

  9. List of United States Supreme Court cases involving the First ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States...

    The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. Kermit L. Hall, ed. The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions. Kermit L. Hall, ed. Alley, Robert S. (1999). The Constitution & Religion: Leading Supreme Court Cases on Church and State. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. ISBN 1-57392-703-1