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05/11/12 Exercising their First Amendment rights Source: The Dickinson Press - Dickinson ND Pennsylvania residents Mark Fairchild, second from left, and Margaret Fairchild, third from left, speak Thursday with passersby in front of the Dickinson post office, where the couple set up a table to inform residents about the LaRouche PAC and House Concurrent Resolution 107, introduced March 7 in the U.S. House of Representatives.
02/04/12 Your First Amendment Right Source: The Inter-Mountain - Elkins WV As they say they will protect your right they really don't care about your right.
10/07/11 affirmed their First Amendment right Source: National Affairs - Rolling Stone The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a grieving father's pain over mocking protests at his Marine son's funeral must yield to First Amendment protections for free speech.
08/26/11 Upholding the First Amendment rights Source: NorthJersey.com - Hackensack NJ I would like to commend our town council, especially councilman Lou Signorino, for upholding the First Amendment rights of West Milford citizens with regard to political signs at election time.
07/18/11 First Amendment Rights or Not? Source: Adirondack Daily Enterprise - Saranac Lake NY Last month, the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors passed a law that banned protests from within 500 feet of a military funeral or memorial service, 2 hours before the service, during, and 2 hours afterwards.

Background on first amendment rights

The First Amendment (Amendment I) 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 a governmental redress of grievances.

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