Post your comments there. You could also send us an email. Text of the First Amendment we went to hear how you interpret it. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Oer abridging the freedom of speech, or the press ginsburg had a discussion at the National Press club. Lets take a listen to what they had to say. They focused on what the founders meant when they talked about freedom. [video clip] theres a point that Justice Scalia made. He said the First Amendment has protection against constraint. Government constraint. Our expression of First Amendment is quite different from the expression in the declaration of rights of man. You mentioned this First Amendment is saying hands off government. It does not say everyone shall have the right to speak freely. That is with the declaration of the rights of man says. Not at all. The says Congress Shall make no laws. About freedom of speech or press. It instructed to governmen