First Amendment Essay

Bill of Rights was the freedom of religion. This country was built on the idea that people were allowed to be whomever they wanted to be. They were allowed to express their ideas and beliefs to other people. The United States government passed the amendments that separate the church and state, saying that Congress and states can not pass a law that establishes religion, restricting them from forcing a religion on its people,…

We do not live in the America our ancestors fought and died for. After we boil it all down to nitty gritty of the hate and speech crimes, loss of belief in our government, etc. I start to see we live in a weakened version of the country they once dreamed for us. This country was founded with principles that stood for truth and justice and freedom. FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND PRESS! How can a simple term have so many different interpretations, how did it become so misunderstood? We live our lives…

protected when they participate in the emotional harm of others, but when the reputation of a large companies is in jeopardy, internet providers are able to violate people rites to limit loss. Unfortunately, limiting how people are protected the First Amendment will create a continued decrees in peoples freedom. This means that, overtime restrictions could create an opposite affect and instead of protecting people, it could hold everyone prisoner. For this reason, it is very important that…

American’s First Amendment gives us many significant freedoms such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom to assembly, Communist China doesn’t have any of these freedoms if it goes against the People’s Government. In Fan Shen’s book, Gang of One Memoirs of a Red Guard, he had no rights to believe or say anything different from what the government wants. Shen is born and grows in a Chinese Communist family in Red China, and he tries to escape the legal way because if he doesn’t it…

The Miller test uses community standards which imposes view of the majority onto views of the minority. This violates the spirit of a liberal reading of the First Amendment because it restricts content and therefore speech. Speech and individual liberty should be protected. Content should not be prohibited, especially when it is based on community standards because they are “unsupported by reasoning of any intelligible…

requirement, 875(c) criminalizes negligent speech, which would violate the First Amendment and be unconstitutional. In a previous case, Watts v. United States, the Court mad an exception to the rule for “true threats” of physical harm. Elonis emphasized that it is a limited exception, differing to most First Amendment cases. He argued that the exception for true threats does not remove negligent speech from the First Amendment protection. In this case, after all the arguments are given for…

Envision a nation where everyone who felt offended by music, art or literature tried to get the offensive content banded. This would create so many problems when the way people feel about something becomes more important than the actual laws that determine whether or not material should be censored. Though this can be a sensitive subject, I wish to proceed from the viewpoint of whether the artist of the song deserved to have this song pulled off radio stations across the United States. On…

Hilary: The Movie was a documentary that was released in 2008 before the 2008 Primaries. This was a movie about Senator Hillary Clinton and it talked about and went over all the scandal’s that Hilary Clinton was involved in. It talked about White House FBI files, Whitewater and White House travel office. This movie was produces by a non-profit organization, Citizens United. The film was sold on their website and they had planned to play if over the air for cable subscribers. This video’s main…

shock the nation. By burning an American flag given to him during the protest, Johnson landed his case up to the Supreme Court. He was first convicted by the Texas courts for desecration of a venerated object. It was later brought to the Supreme Court of the United States as to whether burning the American flag is an offense at all. Protected under the First Amendment as it is seen as “symbolic speech,” it is unconstitutional for someone to be placed in prison based on acting upon their personal…

States, we, the people have the right to express any opinions without censorship. It is said in the First Amendment, “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.” First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 24 Sept. 2017,…