Amendment Paper I. First Amendment Text II. What It Guarantees III. Why It Was Important IV. Supreme Court Cases and Public Trials --NSPA v. Skokie --Gobitis v. Minersville -- Barnette v. West Virginia School Board --Tinker v. Des Monies V. The Censorship Issue --Music *Frank Zappa and the PMRC --Books --Obscenity VI. Closing Remarks Amendment 1 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom …showed first 75 words of 2032 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2032 total…that they would not want to see someone go to prison for expressing an unpopular view. You can't have it both ways, so the Supreme Court will never run out of First Amendment cases and we can all pray that they remember "Freedom of speech is not about good speech vs. bad; it's about who holds the power to decide which is which."# # American Civil Liberties Union # "Free Even to Offend" By Robyn E. Blumner