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First Amendment to the United States Constitution

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for...

Timeline of Events

1957

6.24.1957

In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment .

1971

6.7.1971

The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment.

1997

6.26.1997

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.