Whether a post office regulation compelling newspapers to disclose the names and addresses of all editors and stockholders as well as circulation information, and to mark all paid material "advertisement" violates the First Amendment's free press guarantees.
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.
Federalist No. 84 is a political essay by Alexander Hamilton, the eighty-fourth and penultimate essay in the series, summarizes Federalist arguments that the proposed Constitution does not need a bill of rights.
The Constitution of the United States is the world’s longest surviving written charter of government and is the supreme law of the land. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, in 1789.