The original text of the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

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The Constitution Annotated essays discussing the First Amendment begin with the Religion Clauses, reviewing the history of these Clauses before explaining, in turn, the Supreme Court’s interpretation …

This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission.

First Amendment: 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 …

An annotation about the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise the reof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people …

First Amendment: 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 …

An annotation about the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

First Amendment Fundamental Freedoms Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms Third Amendment Quartering Soldiers Fourth Amendment Searches and Seizures Fifth Amendment Rights of Persons …