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When Congress proposed the Bill of Rights, it put the First Amendment at the top of the list because it considered the rights protected by it to be the foundation of all other rights listed in the first ten amendments.

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Students at the University of Kentucky and Transylvania University (a private university in Lexington, KY) have identical First Amendment rights when it comes to distributing pamphlets on their campuses.

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When the First Amendment became part of the Constitution, it applied equally to the federal government and the states.

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An amendment can become part of the Constitution only after it has been proposed by two-thirds of each house of Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the states.

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The President of the United States must sign an amendment before it becomes part of the Constitution.

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The Supreme Court has ruled that under some circumstances, the government can require newspapers to publish material that their editors do not want to publish.

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Commercial speech, such as advertisements on TV or in a magazine, enjoy no First Amendment protection.

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The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress can force libraries that receive federal funding to put filters on all computers that provide access to the Internet.

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Congress has provided immunity to Internet service providers (ISPs) such as America Online (AOL) so they cannot be sued successfully for anything they post on their Web sites that they did not create?

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The Supreme Court has ruled that flag burning is protected by the First Amendment.

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Broadcast journalists enjoy the same First Amendment rights that newspaper reporters have.

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Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are absolute guarantees; the Supreme Court has said that nothing can trump the right of citizens to speak their minds.