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.
| 1. | An Act for Preventing the Frequent Abuses in Printing Seditious Treasonable and Unlicensed Books and Pamphlets and for Regulating Printing and Printing Presses, 33 1662 |
| 2. | David Hume, Of the Liberty of the Press, 1742 |
| 3. | Montesquieu, Spirit of Laws, bk. 12, CHS. 12--13, 1748 |
| 4. | William Blackstone, Commentaries 4:150--53, 1769 |
| 5. | James Burgh, Political Disquisitions 3:246--52, 1775 |
| 6. | Virginia Declaration of Rights, sec. 12, 12 June 1776 |
| 7. | Albemarle County Instructions concerning the Virginia Constitution, Fall 1776 |
| 8. | Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 16 Jan. 1787 |
| 9. | Cincinnatus, no. 2, TO James Wilson, 8 Nov. 1787 |
| 10. | James Wilson, Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention, 1 Dec. 1787 |
| 11. | Federal Farmer, no. 16, 20 Jan. 1788 |
| 12. | A Plebeian, An Address to the People of the State of New-York, Spring 1788 |
| 13. | Respublica v. Oswald |
| 14. | Congress, Amendments to the Constitution, June--Sept. 1789 |
| 15. | Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 28 Aug. 1789 |
| 16. | Benjamin Franklin, An Account of the Supremest Court of Judicature in Pennsylvania, viz., The Court of the Press, 12 Sept. 1789 |
| 17. | John Marshall to a Freeholder, 20 Sept. 1798 |
| 18. | Kentucky Resolutions, 10 Nov. 1798 14 Nov. 1799 |
| 19. | James Madison, Virginia Resolutions, 21 Dec. 1798 |
| 20. | Henry Lee, Report of the Minority on the Virginia Resolutions, 22 Jan. 1799 |
| 21. | James Madison, Address of the General Assembly to the People of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 23 Jan. 1799 |
| 22. | James Iredell, Charge to the Grand Jury, in Case of Fries |
| 23. | Kentucky Constitution of 1799, ART. 10, SEC. 7 |
| 24. | James Madison, Report on the Virginia Resolutions, Jan. 1800 |
| 25. | United States v. Cooper |
| 26. | Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801 |
| 27. | St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries, 1:App. 298--99, 2:App. 12--25, 27--30, 1803 |
| 28. | People v. Croswell |
| 29. | Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 14 June 1807 |
| 30. | Updegraph v. Commonwealth |
| 31. | Commonwealth v. Blanding |
| 32. | James Kent, Commentaries 2:12--22, 1826 |
| 33. | Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 3:§§ 1874, 1876--83, 1885--86, 1833 |
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