First Amendment to the United States Constitution

Prayer in public schools has been an ongoing controversial topic that has led to major Supreme Court decisions. There are several individuals who feel that school prayer should be allowed in the school system, on the other hand, there are several individuals who feel that school prayer should not be allowed in schools. Daily prayer was eliminated by the the Supreme Court in 1962. In 1962, the supreme court officially sponsored school prayer. “In 1963, the Court said that schools cannot begin…

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 agenda was to influence the voters and steer them away from voting for Hilary Clinton. But there were many things that held that back and didn’t allow them to run the film on cable. One of the main things that held it back was an Act that was passed back in 2008. This prevented the Organization, Citizens United to post it for cable…

As part of the Affordable Care Act’s implementing guidelines, group health care plans are required to include preventative care coverage, including methods of contraception. There were some exceptions where religious facilities and organizations are exempt from these requirements. After the Hobby Lobby case, the department of Health and Human Services (HHS) created some accommodations for certain non-profit organizations stating that they may opt out from providing contraceptive coverage by…

The United States takes pride in the amendments it has created to provide freedom for all citizens, but what if the government is more controlling than it leads the world on to believe? The right to peacefully assemble, freedom of speech and press is sacrificed for the government to manipulate the people and promote nationalism. A protest at Kent State puts the theory of right to peacefully assemble and freedom of speech into question. On May 4th of 1970 this college becomes a killing ground…

The A-State football players should have been allowed to wear the crosses only if they bought them and placed them on their helmets themselves. Also, no school official should support nor discourage them wearing the crosses. The players who choose to wear them should wear them because they wanted to and were not coerced by any student nor school official. According to the American Civil Liberty Union website in regards to religion in schools students have to the right to say prayer in school,…

In 2015 the Frank Augustus Miller Middle School in Rancho Cucamonga California pulled a novel from its libraries after several parents complained that the book contained crude language and sexual content that was not suitable for that age group. According to the Marshall University Library this book was The Fault In Our Stars. In other schools Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye has been challenged and or banned from certain institutes many times. The novel was challenged and or banned in 2004-2009…

On the issue of the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer being challenged, I believe that this book should not be banned because there is not adequate evidence to remove this book from the shelves of school libraries around the United States. For the age group that this book was meant for, there are no issues that would have a strong, negative influence on the readers. Although there are some topics and scenes that could be labeled as inappropriate or insulting, the book in whole is not…

but as the marginalized group that believes the flag is Southern history. Some of the students went as far as to say they were going to continue to wear clothing with the flag on it. In his article, for The Christian Science Monitor, Patrik Jonsson states “That could lead to at least one legal…

Practicing your right to freedom of speech becomes difficult when obstacles such as place, time, and manner limitations of free speech are present. Also known as censorship. It can be difficult to break away from the regulations put on citizens of the United States by the government and to voice our opinions when one has to be cautious of what is being printed, communicated, and advertised, etc. Juan Williams describes this difficulty in his essay, “Defying the PC Police”. In his essay, Williams…

knowledge instead of pleasure. Augustine would would say that anyone who views obscene material as immoral because it goes against our god given rights. Also Augustine would probably agree with the fact that obscenity is not protected by the First amendment. He would agree with it for one reason, obscenity is wrong and anything that is wrong is immoral. In the case of obscenity many people may take pride and pleasure in the material making them feel powerful. That power they feel might make them…