The favorite part of my job as an attorney at the First Amendment Center is to speak to high school students about the importance of the First Amendment and the rest of the Bill of Rights. The provisions of the Bill of Rights represent a blueprint to personal freedom and define the essence of our great nation. Students and teachers will enjoy this book.

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The Fourteenth Amendment represented a second Bill of Rights, as it extended the protections in the U.S. Constitution to the states. It is vital to understand the Fourteenth Amendment to understand the meaning of “due process” and “equal protection” — two of the most important concepts in our legal system.

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Want to know more about student dress codes, Internet expression, and other hot-button free-expression issues in our public schools? If so, check out this book that I wrote for the First Amendment Center.

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Co-authored by Charles Haynes, Sam Chaltain, John E. Ferguson Jr., David L. Hudson Jr. and Oliver Thomas, The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the most basic and cherished rights in a free society — freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. This collection is a comprehensive guide to how those freedoms can be modeled and applied in every school.

This book provides a civic and legal framework for giving all members of the school community — students, parents, teachers, administrators and community members — an understanding of how the First Amendment applies to schools.

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