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The 71 pages that link to First Amendment to the United States Constitution, each with the reason it gives.

• Hollywood blacklistRelated: Blacklist prosecutions raised questions about compelled testimony and political expression.

• Freedom of the pressRelated: Its text became a foundational legal guarantee of press freedom in the United States.

• SecularismBroader topic: Its religion clauses are a central legal expression of American secularism.

• Freedom of speechRelated: It is the principal constitutional source of speech protections in the United States.

• Civil libertiesBroader topic: Its guarantees anchor several prominent American civil liberties.

• Freedom of expressionBroader topic: It established a prominent constitutional model for protecting expression from government.

• McCarthyismRelated: McCarthy-era investigations tested how far political inquiry could constrain speech and association.

• Censorship in the United StatesRelated: It sets the central constitutional limit on government censorship.

• Religious tolerationBroader topic: Its religion clauses prohibit establishment and protect free exercise, giving toleration constitutional form.

• United States Bill of RightsBroader topic: It groups several central protections for expression and conscience.

• Dress codeRelated: In U.S. public institutions, some clothing choices may receive protection as expression or religious practice.

• Prior restraintRelated: Its speech and press protections provide the principal U.S. constitutional basis for opposing government restraints in advance.

• Comstock lawsRelated: Challenges to suppressing books and sexual information invoked constitutional protections for speech and publication.

• Hate speechRelated: Its protections sharply limit government power to prohibit hateful expression in the United States.

• Separation of church and stateBroader topic: Its religion clauses became the central legal framework for American church–state relations.

• Freedom of associationRelated: U.S. courts derive associational protections from its guarantees of speech and assembly.

• Constitutional amendmentBroader topic: It illustrates how an amendment can establish durable protections for civil liberties.

• House Un-American Activities CommitteeRelated: Challenges to HUAC raised questions about political speech and association.

• Conversion therapyRelated: Legal challenges argue that restrictions implicate therapists’ speech and religious expression.

• Red ScareRelated: Anti-radical prosecutions and blacklists tested how far those protections covered political dissent.

• Right to be forgottenCompared with: Strong speech protections shape U.S. resistance to broad legal rights to delist truthful information.

• Espionage Act of 1917Narrower topic: Challenges to the act asked how its speech restrictions could coexist with these protections.

• American Civil Liberties UnionBroader topic: Its guarantees anchor much of the ACLU's work on expression and association.

• George CarlinNarrower topic: The controversy around Carlin’s broadcast routine became a landmark dispute over free speech.

• Freedom of assemblyRelated: It expressly protects the right of the people peaceably to assemble.

• Andrea DworkinCompared with: Free-speech protections became the central legal obstacle to Dworkin’s ordinance.

• Felix FrankfurterRelated: His flag-salute opinions exposed tensions between deference and protection of individual liberties.

• COINTELPRORelated: Operations against political advocacy brought the program into direct conflict with protected freedoms.

• Lenny BruceRelated: Bruce’s prosecutions made the limits of protected speech central to his public case.

• New York Times Co. v. SullivanNarrower topic: The Court grounded its limit on state libel judgments in speech and press freedoms.

• Parental Advisory labelRelated: Challenges to music warnings often turn on whether pressure surrounding them restricts protected expression.

• Section 230Compared with: Section 230 is a statute, while the First Amendment independently constrains government regulation of speech.

• Texas v. JohnsonRelated: Johnson became a prominent precedent on the amendment’s protection of unpopular expression.

• Quebec ActCompared with: Its later American guarantee of religious liberty contrasts with the act’s imperial accommodation of Catholic worship.

• Alien and Sedition ActsRelated: The Sedition Act prompted a lasting dispute over whether federal limits on criticism violated its protections.

• Freedom of speech in the United StatesBroader topic: Its Speech Clause is the central textual source of protection.

• N.W.ARelated: Controversy over N.W.A raised questions about artistic expression and government pressure.

• Free Speech MovementRelated: The protest drew on free-expression principles, though the university’s public institution status shaped their application.

• Hollywood TenRelated: The controversy raised questions about political expression and government investigations.

• Intellectual freedomBroader topic: In the United States, it supplies central legal protections for public expression and inquiry.

• Television censorshipRelated: It frames legal challenges to government restrictions on US television speech.

• Civil liberties in the United StatesBroader topic: Its freedoms anchor major disputes over expression and conscience.

• Louis BrandeisNarrower topic: His opinions helped establish a robust constitutional defense of political speech.

• Hugo BlackRelated: Black read its protections, especially for speech and press, as unusually categorical.

• Julian AssangeRelated: Assange’s prosecution prompted debate over how press protections apply to publishing classified material.

• Larry FlyntNarrower topic: Flynt framed his legal fights over sexually explicit publications as free-speech disputes.

• Pledge of AllegianceRelated: Barnette treated compelled flag-salute participation as a violation of protected expression.

• William O. DouglasNarrower topic: Douglas often read its protections broadly, including for unpopular expression.

• Southern Poverty Law CenterCompared with: The center’s public classifications raise questions about how advocacy interacts with protected expression.

• Intentional infliction of emotional distressCompared with: Constitutional speech protections can restrict liability for emotional-distress claims based on expression.