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Travel Cases

  • Aptheker v. Secretary of State (1964)

Aptheker v. Secretary of States (1964) overturned a law allowing the state
department to deny passports to American Communists because it violated the
First Amendment.

  • Haig v. Agee(1981)

Haig v. Agee (1981) raised and answered First Amendment questions regarding
the right to travel in order to prevent speech deemed harmful to national
security.

  • Zemel v. Rusk (1965)

Zemel v. Rusk (1965) refused to interpret the First Amendment so as to
grant a citizen an absolute right of travel to other countries to assess
the effects of U.S. policies abroad.

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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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