First Amendment to the United States Constitution

Clause. This Clause states, “The First Amendment provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion….” The very first Establishment Clause case brought forth to the Supreme Court was in the 1947 Everson v. Board of Education case. This case is considered a landmark decision, mainly because it tied the Establishment Clause to the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution, thus making it applicable to each State. This case set…

could happen to anyone. No matter what race you are, you are at the risk of being profiled. In the passage Surveillance is Necessary by Dan White it discusses that racial profiling is necessary to keep a business successful. To support his claim he states that the retail industry loses about 31.3 billion each year and shoplifting represents one-third of that. Theft prevention is targeting certain ethnic groups assuming that they’re the epicenter of shoplifting. Everyone is different and no one…

be an important part of one 's identity and personality. One may express themselves in nearly every aspect of their life. This is especially prominent The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Secret Life of Bees in the way that they express their mental state. When an environment is void of self expression, it has negative effects on mental health, People can express themselves in a variety of ways. A well known and relatively simple way to express oneself is to be creative. Whether it be through…

Eubanks, the capacity to create and sustain values and to apply them in judgments is a central characteristic of human nature (Johannesen, Valde, & Whedbee, 2008, p. 43). One of the main factors in determining if violent video games could have first amendment protection or should fall under more government regulation was if violent video games provide values for users to learn and sustain. While violent video games do tend to focus on violence as a means to an end they can also provide the…

In America, free speech has been a privilege that has been used to its extent but that has also been criticized and censored. In the current state of our country, free speech has been both expressed and censored to a maximum because of different viewpoints that people have. The people who are trying to censor everyone else’s free speech do so because of various reasons that are essentially harming to our country as a whole. The reasons that cause for censorship of certain forms of free speech…

The first amendment addresses the freedom of religion and speech as stated before and are further explicated in two ways, the establishment and free exercise clause. The establishment clause clearly states that schools must neither endorse nor deny the ability of students to practice their religious freedoms. This clause also ensures that students with various…

Literature Review The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, ensuring that there is no prohibition on the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble, or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. Adopted on December 15, 1791, it has served the United States of…

unreasonable not to. Using the written and spoken language, this world constantly changes and learns and will continue to as long as everyone’s voices are heard. According to the article “Arts and First Amendment: Parody and Satire”, an excerpt explains how law defends forms of expression; it says, “ The First Amendment protects satire and parody as a form of free speech and expression” (Kyonzte Hughes; line 10). Being that this world is full of diversity, there will always be new opinions and…

Obscenity is defined in Media Essentials: A Brief Introduction as a form of expression not protected by the first amendment. The reason for not protecting it is due to its inappropriate information. This information could harm or upset its audience in anyway and this must be avoided. However, where the line should be drawn is not always clear, how much protection does the first amendment give us? What is too much protection and can it go too far? This argument has occurred in two cases: The New…

With the anomaly of a particular few states, the rights of private property have overridden the first amendment rights of people within shopping centers. The original purpose of these “civic centers” was to perfect the downtown environment. If one is to go these downtown centers, the right to publicly protest and exert ones…