Freedom-of-speech meaning

The right to express any opinion in public without censorship or restraint by the government, protected in the United States as a right under the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
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The right, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, to communicate ideas and opinions without government intervention.
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The right of citizens to speak, or otherwise communicate, without fear of harm or prosecution.
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Used other than as an idiom: see freedom,"Ž speech.
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Freedom-of-speech Sentence Examples

  • In 1481, three years after the Sixtine commission, a tribunal was inaugurated at Seville, where freedom of speech and licence of manner were rife.

  • Similar, too, was the revelation, when freedom of speech was at last allowed, of the unhappy effect of the long divorce of the intellect of the country from any experience of practical politics.

  • The authority of the priesthood is to rest wholly on voluntary adhesion, and there is to be perfect freedom of speech and discussion.

  • The fact seems to be that intellectual speculation was as strong in America as in Puritan England; the assumption that the inhibition of its expression was good seems wholly gratuitous, and contrary to general convictions underlying modern freedom of speech.

  • The following words show that a prophet in ancient Israel had the utmost freedom of speech.

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