Name: Is the First Amendment the greatest right of all?
Start: 2025-02-27T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-27T19:00:00+00:00
Location: Gresham College

Is the First Amendment the greatest right of all?

This lecture discusses a hierarchy of rights. Is the First Amendment the most important of all, given its five foundational rights?
About this Event

This lecture discusses a hierarchy of rights. Is the First Amendment the most important of all, given its five foundational rights – no law respecting an establishment of religion; free exercise of religion; freedom of speech and the press; the right peaceably to assemble; the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. How might this apply to the UK?

A lecture by  Professor Clive Stafford-Smith

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