This brief note works to understand how the Supreme Court has come to view similarly the liberties protected by the First and Second Amendments of the United States Constitution in recent years.

The impetus for my writing of this document was due to a panel titled “The Intersection of the First and Second Amendments” at the 34th Annual Ira C. Rothgerber Jr. Conference on Constitutional Law hosted by the Byron R. White Center at University of Colorado Law School, and questions my friends and I had afterwards.

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