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ratification
The First Amendment was submitted to the states, and was ratified during this time.
It asstablished:
Establishment Clause and Free Exercise of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Press, Right to Assemble, Right to Petition the Government. -
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FIRST AMENDMENT
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McCollum v. Board of Education
Justice Hugo Black: "To hold that a state cannot consistently with the First and Fourteenth Amendments utilize its public school system to aid any or all religious faiths or sects in the dissemination of their doctrines and ideals does not manifest a governmental hostility to religion or religious teachings. For the First Amendment rests upon the premise that both religion and government can best work to achieve their lofty aims if each is left free from the other within its respective sphere." -
Texas v. Johnson
This was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that invalidated prohibitions on desecrating the American flag. -
Beussink v. Woodland R-IV School District
A student was unconstitutionally suspended from school for creating a website that degraded some of the staff at his school. The boy took it to court and the court ruled in his favor saying that he used his first amendment rights. -
Boy Scouts of America v. Dale
It was favored that the first amendment gives the Boy Scouts of America a constitutional right to ban homosexuals from serving as troop leaders, -
United States v. Williams
This case has to do with the "pandering" of child pornography. It was ruled that there is no First Amendment protection for offers to engage in illegal transactions,
