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UpInArms

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4. The Press is the only organization that is specially named in the Constitution

Reply to abqtommy (Reply #2)

Tue Aug 20, 2019, 11:02 AM

Aug 2019

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making any law respecting an establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, or to petition for a governmental redress of grievances. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights.

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