I am a Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist with over 20 years experience providing services as an Expert Witness to the North East & North West of England, the Midlands, Yorkshire and beyond.
The Framers of the Constitution guaranteed freedom of speech and expression to the citizens of the United States with the First Amendment, which reads, in part, Congress shall make no law â¦ abridging the freedom of speech..
The U.S. Supreme Court often has struggled to determine what exactly constitutes protected speech. The following are examples of speech, both direct (words) and symbolic (actions), that the Court has decided are either entitled to First Amendment protections, or not. The First Amendment states, in relevant part, that:reedom of speech includes the right: 1  Not to speak (specifically, the right not to salute the flag). 2  West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943). 3  Of students to wear black armbands to school to protest a war (âStudents do not shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate.â). 4  Tinker v. Des Moines, 393 U.S. 503 5  ... To