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06/01/12 Horwitz on Post on Free Speech & the Production of... Source: Legal Theory This Article is part of a symposium on Robert Post's valuable new book, Democracy, Expertise, and Academic Freedom: A First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State (2012).
05/18/12 Hemel on the First Amendment & Executive Action Source: Legal Theory In recent years, textualist scholars have advanced the argument that the First Amendment only applies to legislative action, and thus that executive authority is unencumbered by the First Amendment's prohibitions.
10/14/11 First Amendment Day Source: Editor`s Blog - News Record I saw this video yesterday during a meeting of the UNC Journalism and Mass Communication Foundation Board.
03/08/11 Jesse Jackson Jr. Creating Jobs...With His Mind Source: Ace of Spades HQ I stumbled across this on Beck's radio show (I think it was his but with a guest host or something).

Background on first amendment

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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