first amendment
Example Sentences
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"This is protected speech under the first amendment of the United States Constitution."
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025
“Jim has had a long, distinguished nearly 20-year career at CNN, with a track record of standing up to authority, for the first amendment and for our journalistic freedoms,” the network said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
One X post that shared the fabricated image states: “A law that breaks the first amendment? Orwellian.”
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024
Mr. Keenan alleged the law, in addition to hurting the pension, was unconstitutional because it “violates the first amendment for compelling speech, viewpoint discrimination and content discrimination.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
The first amendment which the House has made, and the most important one, will be found to commence in the eighth line of the first section.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by Barnes, William Horatio
