AN AMENDMENT TOO FAR?

First Amendment | 7 Things You Need to Know - Free Speech Center

Can speech be restricted, and if so, when? In this overview, a First Amendment scholar explains what sorts of speech are protected, where free expression may be ...

Rereading the First Amendment

In this series of blog posts, we aim to complicate the false assumptions that underlie so much of the conversation about the First Amendment in contemporary ...

Why the Second Amendment may be losing relevance in gun debate

In more than 40 states, preemption laws expressly limit cities from regulating guns -- with some going so far as to impose punitive damages such ...

It's Time Americans Stepped Up and Learned About the First ...

The rhetoric around such issues can be alienating. An increasing number of us, for example, think the First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees ( ...

Amdt2.2 Historical Background on Second Amendment

See William Rawle, A View of the Constitution of the United States of America 126 (1829) ( In England, a country which boasts so much of its freedom, the right ...

The Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms - FindLaw

As far back as the 1600s, English kings took advantage of ... In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the federal courts heard very few Second Amendment cases.

The 1st & 2nd Amendments | CONSTITUTION USA with Peter Sagal

Does the Federal Government Have Too Much Power? Rights · The First & Second Amendments · Privacy & Property Rights · Crime & Punishment · Should There Be ...

Survey: One-third in U.S. believe First Amendment goes too far

34 percent of Americans say the First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees, up from 13 percent in last year's survey.

Arguments Against a “Statutory Second Amendment”

Many advocates for gun regulation attribute the challenges they face to the influence of the Second Amendment. ... too much liability. But Blocher ...

Repeal The Second Amendment? That's Not So Simple ... - NPR

The Founding Fathers were willing to be edited, it seems, but they did not want it to be easy. So they made the amending process a steep ...

In the Age of Social Media, Expand the Reach of the First Amendment

... Amendments. (Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. at 43 (1883) (J. Harlan, dissenting).) But, in 2018, speech takes place online much more so than it does in ...

Free Speech, Incorporated - Boston Review

What has largely escaped public notice, is that the Supreme Court has begun reshaping the First Amendment into a tool to broadly undermine the ...

The Fourth Amendment Rights of Children at Home: When Parental ...

The Fourth Amendment Rights of Children at Home: When Parental Authority Goes Too Far. Abstract. Although it is virtually undisputed that children have some ...

Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks on the Administration's ...

We must put an end to this nonsense. It is time to put a stake in its heart. We have to stand up to it. And we will do so—resolutely.

The U.S. Constitution Is Impossible to Amend. Blame the Founders.

They made passing an amendment too hard. In the 220-plus years since ratification of the Constitution, more than 11,000 amendments have been ...

First Amendment ‑ Rights, U.S. Constitution & Freedoms

They felt the new constitution gave the federal government too much power at the expense of the states. They further argued that the ...

The Amendment the Court Forgot in Twitter v. Taamneh | Harvard Law

... of weaponizing, or “Lochnerizing,” the First Amendment by extending free speech protections so far into so many areas of ordinary law that.

Is the First Amendment Obsolete?

The First Amendment was a dead letter for much of American history. Unfortunately, there is reason to fear it is entering a new period of ...

First Amendment - Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. “Congress shall make no law ... too far” in the freedom it protects, according to the Freedom Forum ...

The Basics - Campus Free Speech Guide - PEN America

Title IX's impact on speech has been contentious, with some arguing that its implementation goes too far in its definition of sexual harassment and has a ...