The First Amendment: cases, problems, and materials

Abstract

Historical intentions and underlying values -- Advocacy of illegal action -- Conten-based speech restrictions : Chaplinsky and the concept of excluded speech -- Content-based speech restrictions : post-Chaplinsky categorical exclusions -- Content-neutral speech restrictions : symbolic speech and public Fora -- Vagueness, overbreadth, and prior restraints -- Freedom of association and compelled expression -- The government as employer, educator, and source of funds -- The press -- Electronic media and the First Amendment -- Overview of the religion clauses -- The establishment clause -- Free exercise -- Establishment versus free exercise and free speech concerns.