Free Speech Watch|All civil liberties must be respected, even in times of national emergency, however, the Freedom of Speech afforded by the U.S. Constitution is arguably the most important. In these days of the so-called “Patriot Act” our free speech is constantly under serious attack. This website monitors the efforts to protect our free speech. It also monitors the People’s reaction to those efforts.

Added to the Constitution after the Civil War, the amendment includes the words: “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any … The amendment doesn’t explicitly cite any portion of the Bill of Rights, but the court has held that many of those rights — including freedom of speech and freedom from unreasonable searches — are protected by the clause saying that no …

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