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 ...

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 ...

Is begging protected by the First Amendment? Alabama says it isn't. But courts have said governments can't completely ban ...

The fact that the city of Charleston has an ordinance titled “First Amendment Demonstrations” recognizes that citizens have a right to peaceably assemble, as outlined in the First Amendment to the ...