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Protects five fundamental freedoms: religion, speech, press, peaceful assembly, and the right to petition the government.
The Founders considered these freedoms essential to preventing tyranny.
“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.”