CBS News’s flagship program broadcast a call to protect the First Amendment in spite of a Trump administration that has ...

Sally Field recited the First Amendment on '60 Minutes,' calling it a right she now understands "like never before" nearly 67 ...

In the wake of last week’s deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, William & Mary News spoke with Timothy Zick, nationally recognized free speech expert and John Marshall Professor of Government and ...

There is a widespread assumption in American political discourse that individual rights are due to us because we are human beings. In his Second Treatise of Government, John Locke anchored the right ...

Sally Field memorized the First Amendment as a child. The Oscar winner says she now understands "it like never before," stressing that "this fragile thing called democracy needs to be protected." ...

A protest disrupted a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, in January. In the weeks that followed, protesters and journalists involved in the incident were arrested. The case highlights the tensions ...

“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 ...

Letter writers discuss Rededicate 250 event, celebrating America’s 250th birthday and Iran nuclear enrichment.

The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees rights to the citizens of this country for religion, speech, press, assembly and petition for redress. Specifically the “right to assemble” protects ...

If democracy is our nation’s engine, then political protest is its gas pedal — and it has been since our founding. Early Americans rose up to protest the tyranny of the Stamp Act and the Tea Act, ...