The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects freedom of speech including

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The First Amendment protects various forms of speech, including those that may be considered racially offensive. However, it does not protect perjury (lying under oath), fighting words (those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace), or obscenities (defined under a three-pronged test established by the Supreme Court in Miller v. California).