The First Amendment of the Constitution supports religious freedom and places religion outside the reach of the government.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

He said that the First Amendment works by "building a wall of separation between church and state."

VOA: special.2009.05.22

Those words are part of the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of expression and other rights.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

The Supreme Court has heard many cases that test the meaning of the First Amendment.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

Later cases ruled that teaching religious creation stories in public schools violates the First Amendment of the Constitution that calls for separation of church and state.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

The House of Representatives approved this Equal Rights Amendment in nineteen seventy-one.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

Thirty-eight of the fifty state legislatures were required to approve the amendment.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

That came with passage of the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

The first amendment to the United States Constitution reads Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof The idea is to keep governmental powers independent from private religious beliefs.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

Speaking for the amendment, Republican Mark Kirk referred to the killing of Neda Agha Soltan and post-election events.

VOA: standard.2009.06.23

The U.S.Bill of Rights, specifically the Second Amendment, guarantees Americans the right to keep and bear arms.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

Mayor Daley says the city will rewrite its gun ordinance to comply with Second Amendment rights, but he offered no explanation of how that might be achieved.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

At a news conference Tuesday, a group of senators introduced an amendment to the Senate war funding bill that would bar the release of Guantanamo detainees on to U.S.soil.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

The court is also scheduled to consider whether a law that prohibits pictures of animal cruelty constitutes a violation of free speech under the 1st Amendment to the U.S.Constitution.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Last year, the court ruled the 2nd amendment to the U.S.Constitution's protects the right of an individual citizen to own a handgun in the District of Columbia, a federally governed enclave.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

One of the most closely watched cases involves the rights of gun owners in the city of Chicago, where the city's ban on hand guns is being challenged by 2nd amendment advocates.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

In 2008,the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense, striking down a Washington,D.C.law that banned the possession of handguns in the home.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Kyl was speaking in support of an amendment to the $91.3-billion Senate version of the 2009 Iraq-Afghanistan war supplemental bill, aimed at preventing U.S.government funds from going to companies involved in selling refined petroleum products to Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20