Academic freedom

What is peaceful resistance and how does it affect society? As a U.S citizen you have a right to speak and protest about anything the government says or does. “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." (Freedom) If, for example, there’s a student bullying another student, it is your human right to say something to that bully to make them stop or say something to that student to…

order to protect the community. There are many reasons why officials should not be able to monitor students’ online activity. For example, monitoring someone else's online activity and phone snooping is an invasion of privacy and a violation of freedom of speech. Gregory Diaz, a criminal suspect, agrees, saying, “Phone snooping violated the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.” No one should be able to monitor someone’s online activity without their…

whole, its helped us better the world. Libraries should never, in any case, be censored from the public. In the bill of rights, one of the most famous, and important amendments to americans in any time period is the first amendment, Specifically the freedom of speech. This right not only allows people to say whatever they want, it allows people to hear every side of an argument, and form their own opinions on many subjects, concerning our society…

rights by denying them the use of the name “the slants” for his band. The United States constitution protects the right to freedom of expression and speech. In this case, the trademark office violates both “freedom of speech” and “freedom of expression”. The standards have to be viable to protest “free speech” and it has to be reasonable and fill the requirements to question the freedom of speech. Basically what we're saying is, by Tam not being able to use the name “slants” as their band name,…

citizen who cares about their rights—a sense that is periodically found lying dormant in those of us desensitized by the corruption and back-door-dealing that has become the American government. The goal of free speech and the other four paramount freedoms in the first amendment is to keep citizens from being stifled under the weight of dictatorship and totalitarianism, while emphasizing the United States as the democracy it was created to be. Edward Snowden took his right and used it to expose…

Often Madison wrote to his college friend, William Bradford, and spoke of the religious persecution he was seeing, in one letter stating,” That diabolical, hell-conceived principle of persecution rages among some. . . . There are at this time in the adjacent county not less than five or six well meaning men in close jail for publishing their religious sentiments, which in the main are very orthodox. . . . So I must beg you to . . . pray for liberty of conscience for all.” (Wadman, p._) Madison’s…

The United States of America was built on the foundation that anyone of any religion can come and seek freedom. This nation was established two hundred and forty years ago and has been a place of refuge for individuals facing production in their native lands. Since its creation America has been known as one of the most tolerant countries in the world. Each year at the white house, the president lights a Christmas tree celebrating Christmas with the majority of the United States population. The…

A foundational religion should not affect a secular government. There needs to be a distinct separation between church and state. Religion cannot be applied to each person’s life. The government needs to be a representative of all people; it does not matter what race, gender, religion, etc. that a person identifies as, the laws and government regulations should be unbiased and adhered to by all. By allowing religion to be the basis of government, there is a bias towards those who do not follow…

Although some people would say that this is a terrible idea, it is unjust to not allow someone to practice their basic rights because they are not as smart as others. America was founded on the idea of freedom. If you take away someone’s rights based on their intelligence, that is not exactly freedom. Although some Americans may think letting someone with a low intelligence level do things like vote for a president is a bad idea, it is not fair to tell them that they cannot vote. Low…

Amendment is but a guide for our country and it's freedoms are based upon it. I also think that censorship plays a protective role in America because of the “government's act of banning or altering media, speech, or performances.”-Via HG.ORG The reason I believe the 1st amendment is a guide for the other amendments is because it is the first of the inalienable rights that all citizens and all people should have! And every other law and freedom given is based off of the first amendment…