First Amendment

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. These claims discuss how its protections are applied and contested—whether they apply to private reading, religious minorities, Islam as a faith, or corporate data-gathering speech—and how groups invoke or seek to deny those protections.

Claims that use this term

• First Amendment and private reading eroded the public sphere of discussion
• First Amendment protection lets religious minorities assimilate before they can be politicized as threats
• Anti-mosque opposition recasts Islam as a political movement to deny First Amendment protection
• US evangelicals frame Islam as a totalitarian system beyond First Amendment protection
• US courts interpret the First Amendment to protect data gathering as corporate free speech.
• Google’s leaders leveraged First Amendment claims as legal shelter for surveillance inventions