Comparison of United States Constitution (1997) Amendment 1 to Federalist Papers
Summary
United States Constitution (1997) Amendment 1 has one line, and it has a weak match at magnitude 10 in Federalist Papers.
Amendment 1
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Federalist Papers
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Amendment 1: 1
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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Federalist 32: 6
... of the instrument which contains the articles of the proposed Constitution. We there find that, notwithstanding the affirmative grants of general authorities, there has been the most pointed care in those cases where it was deemed improper that the like authorities should reside in the States, to insert negative clauses prohibiting the exercise of them by the States. The tenth section of the first article consists altogether of such provisions. This circumstance is a clear indication of the sense of the convention, and furnishes a rule of interpretation out of the body of the act, which justifies the position I have advanced and ...