Pros And Cons Of The First Amendment

The First Amendment states that "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 to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress

The first amendment was ratified in 1791. The first amendment gives people the rights to religion, freedom of speech, press, assembly and petition. As many things in life the first amendment has its positives and negatives. For instance people who have other beliefs can now go out and practice those beliefs. Before it wasn’t like that, you had no choice of what religion you wanted. If you were born a Christian that’s what you would have to be. Now Christian’s become Catholics or Catholics become Christians. A negative about the right to practice religions is others practice religions for the wrong things. For instance they join Islamic religions to hurt others not saying it’s always the case it has happened. What I would do to make it better would be that if you would like to change you’re religious beliefs you’d have to take an oath. With the oath being you are practicing a new religion for a good cause. It doesn’t intervene with the amendment because they are still allowed to change there religion. Although freedom of religion is not what the amendment says. Colin Kaeprnjck was hated for not standing up for the flag. He was refused the first amendment. He did not want to stand up for a country that has shown no remorse to people of color. Civil disobedience by David Thoreau was written for a reason. Rules are meant to be broken, you should be allowed to not stand up for the national anthem of you don’t want to. Now we have the right of freedom of speech, some say what’s so great about that we won’t be heard anyway. Their wrong freedom of speech has helped us pass so many laws we didn’t even know about. Freedom of speech is used to fight for change all the rights we have today wouldn’t have been without the help of free speech. Freedom of speech is not only the ability to speak but also to hear others and what they believe. A negative out come on freedom of speech would be that people will feel over powered and believe they can overcome anything. They’ll think they are always going to get it their way and when they don’t chaos will occur. It has changed over the years before speaking out would lead to you getting arrested, beat, etc. I would try and change people’s perspective on how everything we fight

A very popular constitutional issue in America is the First Amendment. The First Amendment is meant to protect, but in today’s society it is being questioned that the argument is being overly used. The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the right to freedom of religion and freedom of expression from government interference (Esmaili). Freedom of religion created the separation of church and state. It prohibits the government from interfering with a person's practice of their religion. The right to freedom of speech allows individuals to express themselves without government interference or regulation. The right of freedom of expression gives the right to assemble and gather for peaceful and lawful purposes. It was adopted into the Bill of Rights in 1791. The Court later interpreted the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as protecting the rights in the First Amendment from interference by state governments. Putting this is layman’s term, you can pretty much say what you want without being penalized.

The second argument would be is that the owner has a right to decline to print anything against their belief, and a photographer gay or not has a right to decline to photograph anti-gay or gay rally and a Christian printer has a right to decline to print messages that violate their belief. The right of free speech is to protect everyone, and it means that the government doesn’t get to force anyone to say things that contradict their deeply held belief. This is not a straight or gay issue but this is a human issue.

On September 25, 1789, Congress transmitted to the state Legislatures twelve proposed amendments to the Constitution. Numbers three through twelve were adopted by the states to become the United States (U.S.) Bill of Rights, effective December 15, 1791.

The First Amendment guarantees the right of free speech, but there are many other forms of the first amendment. The most common, is pure speech, which is the use of the spoken word to transport a particular idea. Another form is symbolic speech that refers to the use of symbolic objects or action to express an idea. Some examples of symbolic speech might be waving a flag or burning a cross. The First Amendment protects almost of forms of pure speech and symbolic speech. The First Amendment protects some of symbolic meaning, but not all. Congress argued that burning the American flag was of symbolic meaning to express political views

The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments of the United States constitution and they are basically a list of restrictions of government powers, not all government powers of course, but certain liberties that the authors deemed necessary to restrict the government from having full control over. These amendments cause a lot of controversy between the citizens that they are to protect because they are interpreted differently by different mindsets and are left a bit open to interpretation that causes confusion and dare I say chaos at times. Lastly, it seems that the Bill of Rights is the only section the mass majority of citizens talk about when they are arguing about the constitution or anything that has to deal with liberties.

When the original Articles of Confederation was drafted in 1777, a bill of rights was considered unnecessary. The U.S government was not considered a single national government, but an alliance of independent states. Since the national government has no power to restrict people’s rights, there was no need for laws to prevent it from doing so. During the Constitutional Convention of 1787 the Constitution was passed without a bill of rights. When the constitution was sent to the states for ratification, a debate broke out between the Federalists, who supported a strong national government, and the Anti-Federalists, who supported retaining the spirit of the Articles of Confederation . Although the constitution was passed without a bill of rights, some Anti-Federalists felt that that it would be worthwhile to specifically protect through constitutional amendments such individual rights as free speech, religious exercise, and jury trials. Thomas Jefferson who sided with Anti-Federalists on this matter, sent a letter in 1789 to James Madison to pass the bill of rights . Madison submitted a draft of his proposed bill of rights several months later, and Congress passed it modified version by the end of the year. After ratification by the states, the Final Bill of Rights consisted of ten amendments that covered a wide range of topics, guaranteeing citizens individual rights such as freedom of speech and religious liberty and protecting them from excessive bail, unwarranted searches,

Your blog brought up many interesting points. It seems as though you are supporting the making of an amendment to counter the 2nd amendment in the Constitution. You stated that times have changed and you are absolutely right. There are not wild animals living on the streets nor are there state militias like there were in the 1700's. However, you also talked about the conservative view that many ignorant Republicans hold. I suggest that you check out this link http://heedinggodscall.org/content/pfctoolkit-10 as it has some astonishing numbers on injury or death related incidents due to firearms. Now check out this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate. As you can see, countries with little

The First Amendment is known for allowing the people of the United States to have freedom of religion. For Christians, it is a little more difficult. Whatever Christians do, we get penalized for. Someone always has to cause a commotion. For example, a local school, Russellville High School, had a very emotional time. One of their students had a four-wheeler accident and was in serious condition for a while. This student was a football player, a student, and a friend to many of the people on campus. This led some of the football players to ask to be

I am against the Second Amendment which is the right to bare arms for several reasons. Growing up from the city of Chicago which is one of the most violent city's in the world I have seen a lot of violence. I have heard of a lot of relatives and people I knew or my friends knew where either killed or was shot. There was a lot of violence even before they had the conceal to carry law, so being all for the second amendment would go against I believed in.  Growing up I never wanted to bare arms because I felt it should have been in the hands of the law to take care of criminals etc. and not kids or people themselves. Since moving to Las Vegas things are 100% different from where I come from. You still hear about people you

Thank you for contacting me regarding H.R 2802, the First Amendment Act. I appreciate you taking the time to share your concerns with me.

The Amendment left open possibilities, that states could establish voter qualifications equally to all races. Many states took advantage of this position, establishing poll taxes and literacy tests among other qualifications, which were prohibited later with help of Voting Rights Act.

According to Article V, there are two ways to propose amendments to the Constitution. The first of these is to have two-thirds of both houses of Congress vote to propose an amendment. The second way is if two-thirds of the legislature asks Congress to call a national convention to propose amendments. Amazingly, close to eleven thousand measures have been proposed since 1789 but only thirty-three have obtained the two-thirds vote.

The First Amendment states, "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."