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What are the five First Amendment rights?

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There are five seperate rights protected by the first Amendment. I remember it as RAPPS: Religion, Assembly, Petition, Press and Speech. Implied as well is a protection of right of conscience. The Religion portion is further subdivided into an anti-establishment and a free exercise component. read more

"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 redress of grievances.". First Amendment, U.S. Constitution. read more

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