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Legislative powers Approve budget, passes laws, overrides vetos, impeaches president and judges, approves appointments and treaties, confirms judges and cabinet

1. What is the most important part of what the First Amendment says, for the pur- poses of this class? 2. What are the ba- sic origins of why American founders wrote the First Amend- ment the way they did and who did they try to put in charge of deciding what words and ideas would be ex- pressed? 3. How have the courts not inter- preted the First Amendment in literal terms of what the words actually say? 4. The five main theories on why free speech should be pro- tected and which the Supreme Co...