The United States for years has been known for the different influences its taken over the years of its existence. The first amendment of the United States constitution makes it illegal to establish a main religion for the county. This allows people to practice what they choose freely. The first amendment also prevents laws to be created that take away citizens rights for freedom of speech. The foundation of the United States was created to uphold the beliefs and ideologies of its people equally. Robbie Totten a researcher who studies immigration at Harvard when speaking of the United States in 1776 said it was known as, "An asylum, wherein the blessings of liberty would await men."(Totten 1) What Totten was saying was that the United States was known as the place where people could come for freedom and the ability to have a different lifestyle than they were used to before. Fast forward 241 years later the reality is that our country has moved in another direction.
