The contemporary Supreme Court’s approach to enforcing the First Amendment is not unlike Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat: Over time, the Justices have rendered the Free Speech Clause a “grin without a cat,” at least if one believes that the First Amendment, properly construed and applied, encompasses not merely freedom from government censorship, particularly in the form of content and viewpoint discrimination, but also the right to government support for expressive activities related to the project of democratic self-government. By way of contrast, during the Warren Court and Burger Court eras, federal judges routinely required government to facilitate private speech activity. This support came in a variety of forms – including access to government property for speech activity, government employment, extending expressive freedoms to students, faculty, and staff at public educational institutions (including public schools, colleges, and universities), and requiring the government to facilitate, rather than impede or disrupt, newsgathering activities by the press.