After reading the first amendment, I felt that the first amendment had many loopholes that the forefathers didn’t imagine at the time, such as flag burning, pornography, solicitation, and tobacco advertising. While reading, I commemorated that the first amendment was created to protect the citizens of the U.S from the power of the federal government. However, according to paragraph 5 of the article, people are misinterpreting the spirit of the amendment to cover other forms of symbolic speech like flag burning and various forms of hate speech. Hate speech and flag burning should be rewritten into the first amendment because hate speech is targeting a group of people that wouldn’t necessarily appreciate it. Flag burning should also be covered
