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Mills wrote an essay stating that explaining that if America has free speech then the truth will "rise to the surface"
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General Ambrose Burnside ordered a suspension of a writing published in the Chicago Times because the views on the situation were "disloyal". Abraham Lincoln revoked the request.
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The court decides that they have no say in what was said in the newspapers about the US Supreme Court.
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Congress passed an act making it illegal to refuse duty or be disloyal to and in the US Military. This pretty much took people's first amendment rights away.
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This is when a teacher named John Scopes was found guilty of teaching children about evolution which was against the law in Tennessee.
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LIFE Magazine was banned in the US for putting pictures in their magazine of a health film know as "The Birth of a Baby". This took away their first amendment rights.
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Supreme Court takes away Alabama law that makes it illegal to loiter and picket without a "just cause or legal excuse". This law took away citizens rights because it was revoking their right to gather and talk about something that bothered them.
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Supreme Court rules that the requirement to salute the flag takes away a persons first amendment rights.
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Supreme Court rules a New York law that bans sacrilegious movies to be unconstitutional because it takes away first amendment rights.
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Supreme Court rules that obscenity in speech is not protected under the first amendment.
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Supreme Court takes away daily bible reading practices in public schools because it takes away children's first amendment rights because some children aren't religious or do not read the bible.
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Supreme Court rules that the US denied a school teacher, Marvin Pickering, his first amendments when they fired him for writing a letter of concern to the school board.