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Defining Documents in American History: The First Amendment

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note




Editor's Introduction




Contributors




First Amendment: Genesis and Debate



Excerpts from the Massachusetts Bay Colony Trial Against Anne Hutchinson


Roger Williams: The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution


Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges


Cato’s Letters: Of Freedom of Speech


Virginia Declaration of Rights


Constitution of Massachusetts


Certain General and Miscellaneous Objections to the Constitution Considered and Answered (Federalist, no. 84)


George Nicholas Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention


First Draft of First Amendment Rights


Freedom of Religion



Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments


Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom


Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to the Danbury Baptists


American Indian Religious Freedom Act


Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission


Fulton v. Philadelphia


South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California (statement)


Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, New York v. Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of New York


Freedom of Speech



Gitlow v. New York


Stromberg v. California


“Declaration of Conscience”


Dennis v. United States


Texas v. Johnson


Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission


Mario Savio: “Put Your Bodies upon the Gears”


Here’s What Free Speech and Religious Freedom Have in Common


Free Speech Comes with Consequences


Freedom of the Press



Andrew Hamilton’s Speech Defending Freedom of the Press


An Account of the Supremest Court of Judicature in Pennsylvania, viz., the Court of the Press


Thomas Jefferson on Freedom of the Press


Debates over the Circulation of “Incendiary Publications”


Near v. Minnesota


A Free and Responsible Press


One, Inc. v. Olesen


New York Times Co. v. Sullivan


Branzburg v. Hayes


Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union


“McClatchy Editor Defends Publishing Al Qaeda Detail CNN, NY Times Held Back”


Freedom of Assembly



Olive Branch Petition


Right to Petition: Slavery (1836)


U.S. v. Cruikshank


De Jonge v. Oregon


Bates et al. v. City of Little Rock


Cox v. Louisiana


Carroll v. President and Commissioners of Princess Anne


Coates et al. v. City of Cincinnati


Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston


Unanswered Questions About the U.S. Park Police’s June 1 Attack on Peaceful Protestors at Lafayette Square


The First Amendment in Times of Crisis



James Madison on the Sedition Act of 1798


“Gen. Burnside Shuts Down the Chicago Times for ‘Disloyalty’”


The Espionage Act of 1917


The Sedition Act of 1918


Remarks by Scott Nearing at His Trial


The Individual and the States: The Problem as Presented by the Sentencing of Roger N. Baldwin


Schenck v. United States


Abrams v. United States (Holmes dissent)


Letter to Clayton R. Lusk regarding “Rand Raid”


The Smith Act of 1940


The Four Freedoms


The First Amendment in Education



Minersville School District v. Gobitis


West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette


Engel v. Vitale


Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District


Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier


Foundation for Individual Rights in Education


The First Amendment on Campus 2020 Report: College Students’ Views of Free Expression


Mahanoy Area School District v. B. L.


Appendixes



Chronological List


Web Resources


Bibliography