First Amendment

The First Amendment prohibits public entities, like universities and colleges within the Montana university system, from restricting or regulating expression because of the message or ideas it conveys.

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.

Fourteenth Amendment

The Fourteenth Amendment carries over citizens’ First Amendment rights to the states.

. . . No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States . . .