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Definition of Freedom of speech

1. Noun. A civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution.

Definition of Freedom of speech

1. Noun. The right of citizens to speak, or otherwise communicate, without fear of harm or prosecution. ¹

2. Noun. (&lit freedom speech) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Freedom Of Speech

Literary usage of Freedom of speech

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law and Custom of the Constitution by William Reynell Anson (1892)
"<.f speech; freedom of speech in the House of Lords has not come into question as often or as definitely as the like privilege in the Commons; ..."

2. Free speech bibliography: including every discovered attitude toward the by Theodore Albert Schroeder (1922)
"New York, Free speech league 1916 20p TS freedom of speech. Truth Seeker 46:195-6 March 29, 1919 freedom of speech and of the press. ..."

3. Anti-slavery Manual: Containing a Collection of Facts and Arguments on by La Roy Sunderland (1837)
"The people have a right to a freedom of speech, find of writing and publishing their sentiments COD- ..."

4. The General Principles of Constitutional Law in the United States of America by Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin (1898)
"—The First Amendment to the Constitution further provides that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. ..."

5. A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest Upon the Legislative by Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1888)
"THE first amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides, among other things, that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech ..."

6. The Law of the Federal and State Constitutions of the United States: With an by Frederic Jesup Stimson (1908)
"Freedom of Speech. — Nearly all the States 8 provide in some phrase for ... 10 No law shall ever be passed to abridge or restrain freedom of speech and of ..."

7. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"... dilated on the danger to freedom of speech in Parliament if those members who assailed the foundations of the Protectorate were liable to be judicially ..."

8. The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia: A Comprehensive Collection of the Views of by Thomas Jefferson (1900)
"freedom of speech, The Constitution and.—One of the amendments to the Constitution * * * expressly declares, that " Congress shall make no law respecting an ..."

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