KnowraFirst Amendment to the United States ConstitutionLinked fromLinked fromThe 71 pages that link to First Amendment to the United States Constitution, each with the reason it gives.All 71Broader topic 12Related 41Narrower topic 9Compared with 9Espionage Act of 1917Narrower topic: Challenges to the act asked how its speech restrictions could coexist with these protections.George CarlinNarrower topic: The controversy around Carlin’s broadcast routine became a landmark dispute over free speech.New York Times Co. v. SullivanNarrower topic: The Court grounded its limit on state libel judgments in speech and press freedoms.Louis BrandeisNarrower topic: His opinions helped establish a robust constitutional defense of political speech.Larry FlyntNarrower topic: Flynt framed his legal fights over sexually explicit publications as free-speech disputes.William O. DouglasNarrower topic: Douglas often read its protections broadly, including for unpopular expression.Potter StewartNarrower topic: His obscenity opinions addressed the boundary between protected expression and regulable material.Robert MapplethorpeNarrower topic: Claims about artistic expression and government censorship in the dispute invoked its protections.Adult movie theaterNarrower topic: Its speech protections frame disputes over exhibiting sexually explicit films.