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This is an index page of First Amendment Encylopedia entries on issues, legal terms and doctrines, laws, people, events, controversial events and churches, organized around topics

Clicking on any topic will produce a list of Encyclopedia entries around that topic

For example, clicking on the topic “Issues Related to Speech, Press, Assembly, or Petition” yields more than 100 Encyclopedia entries, organized alphabetically from “Abortion Protests” to “Whistleblowers.”

  • Controversial Works
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  • Freedom of the Press issues and topics
  • Governmental Entities and Activities
  • Groups and Organizations
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  • Laws and Proposed Laws
  • Categories of Laws and Proposed Laws
  • Laws and Proposed Laws, 1791-1899
  • Laws and Proposed Laws, 1900-1950
  • Laws and Proposed Laws, 1951-2007
  • Laws and Proposed Laws, 2008 to present
  • Laws and Proposed Laws, Pre-First Amendment
  • Legal Terms and Concepts
  • General Legal Concepts and Theories
  • Legal Terms and Concepts Related to Religion
  • Legal Terms and Concepts Related to Speech, Press, Assembly, or Petition
  • Media
  • People
  • Americans prominently involved with First Amendment issues
  • Foreign Advocates of Freedom
  • Heads of Organizations or Founders
  • Journalists
  • Judges and Justices
  • Lawyers
  • Presidents
  • Publishers or Subjects of Attempted Censorship
  • Reformers
  • Religious Leaders
  • Scholars
  • Religious Perspectives and Churches
  • Religious phrases and government

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The Free Speech Center is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public policy center dedicated to building understanding of the five freedoms of the First Amendment through education, information and engagement.

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