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This comprehensive site provides a wealth of information to anyone interested in learning more about his or her first amendment rights. Each of the five areas that cover the first amendment freedoms: speech, press, religious liberty, assembly and petition contain research materials on a variety of subtopics. Each of the articles contains frequently asked questions and related cases and resources. The online library contains an extensive collection of judicial, legislative, historical, analytical, journalistic, editorial and other material pertaining to the first amendment freedoms as well as all of the First Amendment opinions of the Supreme Court. The most current first amendment related news is posted on the main page daily along with a weekly commentary called Inside the First Amendment. Educators will find lesson plans that address constitutional principles and contemporary issues involving the First Amendment. The series of nine lessons (four more are under construction) encourage students to explore how their freedoms began and how they operate in today's world by examining individual rights in the school environment and public places. The First Amendment Center, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., and in Arlington, Va., operates this Web site.
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February 2004 
