Synonyms for first amendment
first amend·ment

Princeton's WordNet

1. First Amendmentnoun

   an amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right of free expression; includes freedom of assembly and freedom of the press and freedom of religion and freedom of speech

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1. • Amendment
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1. Jeff Landry:

   What I will tell you is that this is just part and parcel of a bigger legal strategy that we believe ultimately will lead to a successful court case, probably one of the most important First Amendment cases in modern times, what we have in front of us is government actors then co-opting and coercing and colluding with private corporations – under which Americans utilize these corporations, these platforms, as basically a virtual public square – and having the government censor American speech.

2. Elena Kagan:

   You are essentially saying, 'Yes, we generally dislike clutter, but we're willing to make exceptions for clutter for speech that we think has special First Amendment significance,'.

3. Carlos Moore:

   She spent a night in jail for simply exercising her First Amendment right on Facebook.

4. Elena Kagan:

   You know, a city could not put a cross, in my view, on city hall, but in the context of a system where flags go up, flags go down, different people have different kinds of flags, then it is a violation of the free speech part of the First Amendment and not an Establishment Clause violation. The end.

5. Ron Wyden:

   If politicians want to restrict the First Amendment or eliminate the tools with which much of the world communicates in real time, they should understand they are also taking away the tools that bear witness to government brutality, war crimes, corporate lawlessness and incidents of racial bias.