Seven suggestions are made in response to the question, "What kind of speech communication research can one do in the area of First Amendment rights?": (1) that rhetoricians reexamine loyalty-oath cases and examine lines of argument, reasoning, and language of the attorneys and judges; (2) that experts in language and style lead research in the areas of "fighting words,""obscene" speech, and group libel; (3) that those interested in listening provide scholarship on the right to listen; (4) that those interested in parliamentary procedure provide scholarship on the rights of assembly and association; (5) that those interested in oral interpretation lend their expertise on the freedom to read and freedom from literary and artistic censorship; (6) that those in speech education examine the rights of teachers and students, in and out of the classroom; and (7) that those interested in theater research the speech/nonspeech or speech/conduct distinction which has been used on occasion to suppress "obscene" drama productions. (HOD)