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|right=Freedom of the Press
|section=Legal Codification
|question=US
|questionHeading=Is it contained in the US Constitution?
|pageLevel=Question
|contents=The right to freedom of the press is in the first amendment:

“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” (United States of America [[Probable year:: 1789]]  (Rev. [[Probable year:: 1992]])  Constitution - Constitute, [[Probable year:: 1992]]) .


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