first amendment

Example Sentences

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The laws have been repeatedly sustained by U.S. courts against challenges on First Amendment grounds.

From The Wall Street Journal

The First Amendment and decades of precedent constrain executive agencies.

From Salon

The FCC says on its website that the "First Amendment and the Communications Act expressly prohibit the Commission from censoring broadcast matter".

From BBC

Every American kid “ought to understand how glorious the Bill of Rights is, and particularly the First Amendment. And we know that kids don’t know any of this.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The Chamber of Progress stressed that it is "ideologically diverse" but concerned about the impact of the government's action on protections under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

From BBC