First Amendment
Text & Historical
Materials
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U.S. Constitution: Analysis and Interpretation
- Complete text with Annotations of Cases Decided by the U.S.
Supreme Court and Historical Notes; prepared by the Congressional Research Service of the
Library of Congress.
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U.S. Congressional Documents & Debates 1774-1873
- Provided by the Law Library of Congress.
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- A Chronology of
U.S. Historical Documents
- Provided by the University of Oklahoma Law Center.
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Freedom of Expression:
Speech and Press
- Annotations to the Bill of Rights provided by FindLaw.
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Web Resources
Freedom of Speech &
Press
- First Amendment Law Materials
- Compiled by Cornell's Legal Information Institute.
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Journalist's Guide to the Federal Courts -
A Guide by the Administrative Office of the
U.S. Courts is intended to assist reporters assigned to court
coverage and includes information about key players and potential
interview sources for federal district and appellate courts.
- Committee
to Protect Journalists
- A non-profit, non-partisan organization,
"dedicated to the global defense of press freedom".
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"The Free Expression Policy
Project (FEPP), founded in 2000, provides research and analysis on
difficult censorship issues, and seeks free speech-friendly solutions to
the concerns that drive censorship campaigns."
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Freedominfo.org
- "This site is a one-stop
portal that describes best practices, consolidates lessons learned,
explains campaign strategies and tactics, and links the efforts of freedom
of information advocates around the world."
PEN American
Center- "A fellowship of writers working for
more than seventy-five years to advance literature, to promote a
culture of reading, and to defend free expression."
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On
Liberty by John Stuart Mill
- From Bartleby Library Great Books Online
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Online Policy Group
- "a nonprofit organization dedicated to online
policy research, outreach, and action on issues such as access,
privacy, digital defamation, and the digital divide. Additionally,
it focuses on Internet participants' civil liberties and human
rights, like access, privacy, safety, and serving schools,
libraries, disabled, elderly, youth, women, and sexual, gender, and
ethnic minorities."
Intellectual
Freedom Issues
Epic.org:
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Banned
Books Online
John Locke, Second
Treaties on Civil Government
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Freedom of Information
- Freedom
of Information Act Electronic Reading Room
- The FBI's electronic Reading Room
displays frequently requested documents released under the Freedom of
Information Act.
Freedom of Information Center
(Univ. of Missouri)
The Brechner Center for
Freedom of Information
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PONI
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U.S. Supreme Court
Opinions
Speech & Press
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Recent Supreme Court Decisions on Freedom of the Press
- Provided by Cornell University's Legal Information Institute.
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- Oyez Project Freedom of the Press
- U.S.
Supreme Court Opinions
- Full text of opinions and some RealAudio of oral arguments.
Hosted by Northwestern University.
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Lower Courts & State
Courts
New
First Amendment Cases from
The
Reporters Committee
for Freedom of the Press
International Human Rights
Courts and Documents
- European
Court of Human Rights
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Organizations
Devoted to
Freedom of Speech & Press
Thomas
Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression
First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University
Free Expression Network
A network of organizations. Provides up-to-date news.
Freedom
Forum
Institute
for First Amendment Studies
National
Freedom of Information Coalition
Freedom of
Information Foundation of Texas
- American
Civil Liberties Union
- Free
Speech News
The Reporters Committee
for Freedom of the Press
2007 Annual Press Freedom Survey: The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press states that the survey, released February 1, 2007, "reports on press freedom in 98 countries and includes the main violations of journalists' rights in 2006 and regional aspects of media and Internet freedom... The report lists the worst violations in repressive countries...but also looks at democracies, where progress needs to be made too." Please follow link to survey.
Electronic
Frontiers Australia
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Media Law
Bulletin
of the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law
Center
for Digital Democracy
FAIR: Media and Accuracy in Reporting Legal Information Institute: Communications Law
Media Law Resource Center Media
Law Library from International Journalists' Network
Moscow
Media Law & Policy Center
The
News Media & the Law
published by
The
Reporters Committee
for Freedom of the Press
Silha
Center for the Study of Media Law & Ethics
University of Minnesota
Virtual
Institute of Information
Telecommunications,
Cybercommunications, and Mass Media Research at Columbia University
"Can We Tape?"
http://www.rcfp.org/taping/
A Practical Guide to Taping Phone Calls and
In-Person Conversations in the 50 States and D.C.
Produced by The Reporters Committee for
Freedom of the Press for use by journalists.
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