The First Amendment
Like Duolingo, but for The First Amendment. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
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Key ideas in The First Amendment
- The distinction between state action and private policy
- Recognizing symbolic speech as protected expression
- The First Amendment prohibits 'content-based' restrictions on speech
- The government cannot ban speech simply because the audience finds it offensive
- Public forums must remain open to all speakers regardless of their message
- Unprotected categories are narrowly defined by the Supreme Court
- The First Amendment does not protect speech that causes direct, specific harm
- The Miller Test is used to determine if material is legally 'obscene'
- Distinguishing protected speech from specific unprotected categories
- Applying the principle of content neutrality to offensive speech
- Viewpoint discrimination occurs when the government picks sides in a debate
- The First Amendment requires the government to be 'viewpoint neutral'
- Strict scrutiny is applied to any law that targets a specific opinion
- Identifying viewpoint discrimination as the most severe violation
- Brandenburg requires speech to be directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action
- True threats require an intent to place the victim in fear of bodily harm or death
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives The First Amendment the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
Which of these non-verbal actions would most likely be protected as 'expressive conduct'?
Get it right to open this lesson and 23 more in the app.
Where The First Amendment takes you
Go beyond the five freedoms to understand the legal tests, historical tensions, and philosophical foundations that define American liberty.
- 1
The Boundaries of Expression
- Speech in Daily Life
- When Speech Becomes Illegal
- Protests and Public Spaces
- 2
Institutions and the Public Square
- Freedom of the Press
- Student Rights and Symbolic Speech
- 3
Church, State, and Theory
- The Establishment Clause
- Free Exercise of Religion
- The Philosophy of Liberty
3 sections · 8 units · 24 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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