In 1940, during World War II, the United States Congress passed the Alien Registration Act making it illegal for any citizen of the United States of America to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Tensions were high between the United States and other nations that supported the Axis powers, yet the United States took this fear too far by passing a law that only compromised the practice of free speech. This law required non-citizens to register themselves within four months of arriving with the government for the purposes of keeping a mouth guard on incoming immigrants from inciting revolutions during a fearful time of communism and opposing world views (United).
On December 15, 1791 the first Amendment was passed stating, “Congress shall make no law …show more content…
The founding fathers wrote the Bill of Rights to lay out the unalienable rights, given to United States citizens, but have been encroached on several times by laws throughout history. Should one’s ideas be suppressed simply because they contradict the idea of another individual? Certainly the United States has created a free country allowing all political ideas, religions, and beliefs to flourish with great advancement and not to create a fearful watch on one’s own ideas. The court decided that individuals were able to be charged on the talk of carrying out illegal actions rather than the physical happening. Given that inferring an individual’s motives behind a speech can be extremely difficult given whether that those words will remain as so or carry out into violent actions cannot be predicted by the opinions of a jury, or rather the single overruling opinion of a
On December 15, 1791 the first Amendment was passed stating, “Congress shall make no law …show more content…
The founding fathers wrote the Bill of Rights to lay out the unalienable rights, given to United States citizens, but have been encroached on several times by laws throughout history. Should one’s ideas be suppressed simply because they contradict the idea of another individual? Certainly the United States has created a free country allowing all political ideas, religions, and beliefs to flourish with great advancement and not to create a fearful watch on one’s own ideas. The court decided that individuals were able to be charged on the talk of carrying out illegal actions rather than the physical happening. Given that inferring an individual’s motives behind a speech can be extremely difficult given whether that those words will remain as so or carry out into violent actions cannot be predicted by the opinions of a jury, or rather the single overruling opinion of a