American system has first 10 amendment in Bill of Rights that is created to protect the right of the citizen; The most 2 significant civil rights found in Bill of Rights are freedom of speech, press and freedom of religion; both of these right has changed a lot during the American history. First of all, Freedom of speech and press; this right gives people the freedom to political speech as equal to the freedom of assembly and petition, speech associated with action. The example of this right can be the American flag is burnt as a symbol of protest when the supreme court declared the Texas law unconstitutional on the grounds that flag burning was expressive conduct protected by the first amendment. In addition, freedom of speech implies and
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In the past, freedom of speech was very limited for black people and Latino people because they are the minority in the America compare to white people. They had less right to speak up for their own opinions; it really depended on the skin color. Those minority people was being racist by the majority people, they always had to hear the most hateful of racist comment. However, today, freedom of speech is for everyone, it does not matter if people are Black, Asian, Latino, etc, they still be able speak up for your thoughts because the racism act will commit as a crime and First amendment will guarantee to support everyone's freedom of speech. Another significant examples of how freedom of speech are changing in the U.S throughout these court cases. First will be the Mutual Film Corporation v, Ohio in 1915, the court declared that showing movies was not a part of the press. Therefore, it won't have the same level of constitutional protection, it was also be regulated of movie content. Thus the states quickly set up movie review and censorship boards to be able to have the …show more content…
This is a freedom of press that included in the 1st amendment. Third will be the Snyder v. Phelps in 2011, that the Supreme Court declared that hateful or hurtful speech at a funeral is protected by the first Amendment because of the members of a Westboro Baptist church protested at the funeral of Lance when a U.S Marine who was killed in Iraq. Once again, the government had expanded another aspect of free speech in the first Amendment. Last but not least is the Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association in 2010, the Supreme Court video games is type of speech that be protected by the First Amendment. However, California wanted to ban of selling violent games, then the Court said that the ban was unconstitutional. Freedom of speech today is come from so many different from motion pictures to video games today. The second civil right that is playing the big role in the community is freedom of religion. Freedom of religion means a person can practice and participate in any religion that he/she want to join in. Moreover, a person can express their belief in public places and privacy
In the past, freedom of speech was very limited for black people and Latino people because they are the minority in the America compare to white people. They had less right to speak up for their own opinions; it really depended on the skin color. Those minority people was being racist by the majority people, they always had to hear the most hateful of racist comment. However, today, freedom of speech is for everyone, it does not matter if people are Black, Asian, Latino, etc, they still be able speak up for your thoughts because the racism act will commit as a crime and First amendment will guarantee to support everyone's freedom of speech. Another significant examples of how freedom of speech are changing in the U.S throughout these court cases. First will be the Mutual Film Corporation v, Ohio in 1915, the court declared that showing movies was not a part of the press. Therefore, it won't have the same level of constitutional protection, it was also be regulated of movie content. Thus the states quickly set up movie review and censorship boards to be able to have the …show more content…
This is a freedom of press that included in the 1st amendment. Third will be the Snyder v. Phelps in 2011, that the Supreme Court declared that hateful or hurtful speech at a funeral is protected by the first Amendment because of the members of a Westboro Baptist church protested at the funeral of Lance when a U.S Marine who was killed in Iraq. Once again, the government had expanded another aspect of free speech in the first Amendment. Last but not least is the Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association in 2010, the Supreme Court video games is type of speech that be protected by the First Amendment. However, California wanted to ban of selling violent games, then the Court said that the ban was unconstitutional. Freedom of speech today is come from so many different from motion pictures to video games today. The second civil right that is playing the big role in the community is freedom of religion. Freedom of religion means a person can practice and participate in any religion that he/she want to join in. Moreover, a person can express their belief in public places and privacy