Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

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• Religion
• An Overview
• Scholarly Commentary
• Court Tests Applied to Legislation Affecting Religion
• Government Neutrality in Religious Disputes
• Establishment of Religion
• Financial Assistance to Church-Related Institutions
• Governmental Encouragement of Religion in Public Schools: Released Time
• Governmental Encouragement of Religion in Public Schools: Prayers and Bible Reading
• Governmental Encouragement of Religion in Public Schools: Curriculum Restriction
• Access of Religious Groups to Public Property
• Tax Exemptions of Religious Property
• Exemption of Religious Organizations from Generally Applicable Laws
• Sunday Closing Laws
• Conscientious Objection
• Regulation of Religious Solicitation
• Religion in Governmental Observances
• Religious Displays on Government Property
• Miscellaneous
• Free Exercise of Religion
• The Belief-Conduct Distinction
• The Mormon Cases
• The Jehovah's Witnesses Cases
• Free Exercise Exemption from General Governmental Requirements
• Religious Test Oaths
• Religious Disqualification
• Freedom of Expression--Speech and Press
• Adoption and Common Law Background
• Freedom of Expression: The Philosophical Basis
• Freedom of Expression: Is There a Difference Between Speech and Press
• The Doctrine of Prior Restraint
• Injunctions and the Press in Fair Trial Cases
• Obscenity and Prior Restraint
• Subsequent Punishment: Clear and Present Danger and Other Tests
• Clear and Present Danger
• The Adoption of Clear and Present Danger
• Contempt of Court and Clear and Present Danger
• Clear and Present Danger Revised: Dennis
• Balancing
• The ''Absolutist'' View of the First Amendment, with a Note on ''Preferred Position''
• Of Other Tests and Standards: Vagueness, Overbreadth, Least Restrictive Means, and Others
• Is There a Present Test?
• Freedom of Belief
• Flag Salute Cases
• Imposition of Consequences for Holding Certain Beliefs
• Right of Association
• Political Association
• Conflict Between Organization and Members
• Maintenance of National Security and the First Amendment
• Punishment of Advocacy
• Compelled Registration of Communist Party
• Punishment for Membership in an Organization Which Engages in Proscribed Advocacy
• Disabilities Attaching to Membership in Proscribed Organizations
• Employment Restrictions and Loyalty Oaths
• Legislative Investigations and the First Amendment
• Interference With War Effort
• Suppression of Communist Propaganda in the Mails
• Exclusion of Certain Aliens as a First Amendment Problem
• Particular Government Regulations Which Restrict Expression
• Government as Employer: Political and Other Outside Activities
• Government as Employer: Free Expression Generally
• Government as Educator
• Government as Regulator of the Electoral Process: Elections
• Government as Regulator of the Electoral Process: Lobbying
• Government as Regulator of Labor Relations
• Government as Investigator: Journalist's Privilege
• Government and the Conduct of Trials
• Government as Administrator of Prisons
• Government and Power of the Purse
• Governmental Regulation of Communications Industries
• Commercial Speech
• Taxation
• Labor Relations
• Antitrust Laws
• Radio and Television
• Governmentally Compelled Right of Reply to Newspapers
• Regulation of Cable Television
• Government Restraint of Content of Expression
• Seditious Speech and Seditious Libel
• Fighting Words and Other Threats to the Peace
• Group Libel, Hate Speech
• Defamation
• Invasion of Privacy
• Emotional Distress Tort Actions
• ''Right of Publicity'' Tort Actions
• Publication of Legally Confidential Information
• Obscenity
• Child Pornography
• Nonobscene But Sexually Explicit and Indecent Expression
• Speech Plus--The Constitutional Law of Leafleting, Picketing, and Demonstrating
• The Public Forum
• Quasi-Public Places
• Picketing and Boycotts by Labor Unions
• Public Issue Picketing and Parading
• Leafleting, Handbilling, and the Like
• Sound Trucks, Noise
• Door-to-Door Solicitation
• The Problem of Symbolic Speech
• Rights of Assembly and Petition
• Background and Development
• The Cruikshank Case
• The Hague Case