Encyclopedia > First Amendment to the United States Constitution

  Article Content

First Amendment to the United States Constitution

Amendment I (the First Amendment) of the United States Constitution is part of the United States Bill of Rights. It states:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

free speech, libertarian, journalism, separation of church and state, establishment of religion, civil religion

External Links



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Canadian Music Hall of Fame

... Peterson 1979 Hank Snow 1980 Paul Anka 1981 Joni Mitchell 1982 Neil Young 1983 Glenn Gould 1986 Gordon Lightfoot 1987 The Guess Who[?] 1989 The Band 1990 ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 21.6 ms