First Freedoms: A Documentary History of First Amendment Rights in America Book

1	Charter of Rhode Island and Providence plantations, 1663	13
2	Two treatises of government, 1690	22
3	The New-York weekly journal, "of freedom of speech; that the same is inseparable from publick liberty," 1734	29
4	Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776	33
5	Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom, 1786	40
6	Senate revisions to the House-passed amendments to the Constitution, 1789	45
7	The Sedition Act, 1798	50
8	Appeal to the colored citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly, to those of the United States of America, 1829	56
9	Request of the Cherokee people of the Aquohee and Taquohee districts, 1832	64
10	Petition to the U.S. Congress from ninety-seven citizens, 1837	70
11	Gag rule resolution, 1837	77
12	People v. Hall, 1854	82
13	General order no. 12, 1862	93
14	The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1868	99
15	An act to regulate the use of the capitol grounds, 1882	106
16	Seven-year-old Rosie, an experienced oyster-shucker, Bluffton, South Carolina, 1913	113
17	U.S. House Resolution 8753, 1918	118
18	Manifesto and program, 1919	125
19	The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1920	130
20	Tennessee House bill no. 185, 1925	135
21	The Saturday press, November 19, 1927	140
22	Press statement, 1932	146
23	Letter to Minersville, Pennsylvania, school directors, 1935	152
24	Heart Mountain Sentinel, 1942	158
25	U.S. Senate resolution 301, 1954	164
26	Heed their rising voices, 1960	169
27	Memorandum to Hugo Black, 1962	174
28	Official program for the march on Washington, 1963	180
29	Black armband, 1965	185
30	The plan of Delano, 1966	190
31	Front page, New York Times, June 13, 1971	195
32	Section 42.09, Texas state penal code, 1973	200
33	We are coming! : 1976	204
34	The Williamsburg Charter, summary of principles, 1988	210
35	Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon, et al. v. Smith et al., 1990	214
36	Zelman, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Ohio, et al. v. Simmons-Harris et al., 2002	220
37	Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, 2001 a resolution of the city of Eugene defending the Bill of Rights and civil liberties, 2002	226
	Timeline of First Amendment rights in America	234