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First Amendment

Syllables: First A·mend·ment

First Amendment proper noun: the amendment to the constitution of the United States pertaining to freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of the press.

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Proper noun

the First Amendment

  1. The amendment to the constitution of the United States pertaining to freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of the press.
    • The claimant believed his First Amendment rights had been violated, but the judge was unsure of whether it was a First Amendment issue.
    • Our First Amendment class discussed the McCain-Feingold Act today, and I'm convinced people who claim money should be granted First Amendment protection are just defending the corrupt status quo of decades past.

Examples of First Amendment in a sentence

  • One scholar has noted that the [Warren Earl] Burger Court has invalidated more statutes on First Amendment grounds than any previous "court" […]1981, Thomas A. Schwartz, A Reconceptualization of the First Amendment: The Burger Court and Freedom of the Press, 1969–1980 (unpublished...
  • The United States has generally not been successful in terms of exporting the First Amendment in the formal or legal sense, even to western democracies with which it shares much in common.2014, Timothy Zick, “Exporting the First Amendment”, in The Cosmopolitan First Amendment: Protecting Transborder Expressive and Religious...
  • The law faced a First Amendment challenge, and the U.S.2019 July 29, Elizabeth Nolan Brown, “Section 230 Is the Internet's First Amendment. Now Both Republicans and Democrats Want To Take It...
  • “President Trump may believe he has the power to revise the First Amendment with the stroke of a pen, but he doesn’t,” the free speech advocacy group FIRE said in a statement.2025 August 25, “Trump bans burning of US flag in defiance of constitutional protections”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the original on 31...

Forms of First Amendment

alternative abbreviation1A
alternative form1st Amendment

Words formed from First Amendment

Questions about First Amendment

What does First Amendment mean?
First Amendment means the amendment to the constitution of the United States pertaining to freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of the press.
How do you use First Amendment in a sentence?
One scholar has noted that the [Warren Earl] Burger Court has invalidated more statutes on First Amendment grounds than any previous "court" […]
What part of speech is First Amendment?
First Amendment is a proper noun.

Words near First Amendment in the dictionary

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