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Inquiry Paper No. 23 The State of the First Amendment in the UNC system

FIRE, Pope Center report looks at speech codes

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January 10, 2006

FIRE’s Report on the State of the First Amendment in the University of North Carolina System serves to educate the public about the rampant abuse of First Amendment rights within the UNC System, and to put North Carolina’s public colleges and universities on notice that it is unlikely - if not impossible - that most of the policies discussed in the report could survive a constitutional challenge.

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