: the legal right to express one's opinions freely
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The United States not only encourages artistic expression, it’s enshrined in the Constitution, under the First Amendment’s freedom of speech and assembly.—Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2026 Chicago shall promote freedom of speech and the press.—Tracy Baim, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026 His lyrics also call out problems with public services and restrictions on freedom of speech, grievances also voiced by Morocco’s Gen Z protesters last year.—ABC News, 28 Mar. 2026 Attacks on our freedom of speech, our civil rights, our freedom to vote.—Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 28 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for freedom of speech
: the right to express information, ideas, and opinions free of government restrictions based on content and subject only to reasonable limitations (as the power of the government to avoid a clear and present danger) especially as guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution see also free speech compare censorship, prior restraint
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