2024 National First Amendment Summit

Run time: 1 hour, 28 minutes

This week, the National Constitution Center convened the 2024 National First Amendment Summit, in partnership with FIRE and NYU’s First Amendment Watch. In this episode of We the People, we share two panels from the summit including a discussion on free speech on college campuses featuring Mary Anne Franks, Alex Morey, and Keith Whittington, and a discussion on free speech in and out of the courts with Nadine Strossen, Jonathan Turley, and Kenji Yoshino. Listen now

To see the full event, including a keynote conversation with Jason Rezaian of The Washington Post, watch the full America's Town Hall program here.

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The First Amendment

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” 

Read interpretations in the Interactive Constitution

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