The First Amendment Encyclopedia

Presented by the John Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence in First Amendment Studies

Bowen v. Roy (1986)
Bowen v. Roy (1986) ruled that the government did not violate the First Amendment by assigning a Native American a Social Security number for welfare benefits...
United States v. Lee (1982)
The Supreme Court in 1982 declined to rule that religious liberty guaranteed in the First Amendment allowed an Amish farmer to not pay Social Security taxes on...