First Amendment Right to Free Speech
The Bill of Rights is made up of the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution (But you knew that already, right?), including the First Amendment.
In 1969, the Supreme Court decided that the First Amendment right to freedom of speech applies to public school students in the case Tinker v. Des Moines. In that case, three students were suspended for wearing black armbands to their high school to protest the war in Vietnam. The court ruled that their demonstration fell under the First Amendment’s free speech protections and established guidelines for determining when student speech is protected.
