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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 a redress of grievances.

Well until the SC butchered the 14th Amendment, INDIVIDUAL STATES could make all the laws they desired to restrict the above admonitions that originally only applied to actions of the NATIONAL GOVERNMENT. It's called federalism, and it died after the Civil War.