First Amendment to the United States Constitution

family, but most importantly to communicate with one another. As part of our First Amendment right here in the United States social media sites such as Facebook is a valuable outlet for free expression. Some countries such as Cuba does not permit that right and can be a cause of prosecution or arrest. As a huge part of our daily life, social media has a lot of influence on the world today. According to The First Amendment, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or…

We all know that the “establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at a minimum that neither a state nor the Federal Government can organize a church. Neither can they permit rulings which give encouragement to one religion, support all beliefs, or favor one belief over an additional belief. Neither can it neither force nor influence a person to go to or to stay away from religious dwellings in contradiction of their free will or coerce them to acknowledge a belief or distrust…

enacted to ‘remedy the disparity’ between public sector employees ' First Amendment free speech protection and private sector employees who are not given First Amendment protection.” One of the limitations is that it does not protect prospective employees, rather it protects existing employees from discipline “’on account of the exercise by such employee of rights guaranteed by the [F]irst [A]mendment to the United States Constitution’ so long as the ‘activity does not substantially or…

was prompting illegal drug use at a supervised school activity. Frederick claims that his first amendment rights were violated. At first, the principle told Frederick to put away the “offensive” banner, but after Frederick didn’t comply with her, she…

speech, but the issue of sexual assault on college campuses. According to various studies, 15 to 20 percent of students have experienced rape on college campuses throughout the country. Though Josh was not advocating for such a horrible crime, he did state that he thought female students were “asking for it.” There…

Censorship has followed the free expressions of men and women throughout history. The very first record of censorship was in China, 300 AD, when the first censorship law was introduced (Otite). Books should be free for anyone and everyone to read, although children and young adults may be naive and impressionable, books should not be exclusive to certain age groups or social classes. The challenging and banning of the books like Huckleberry Finn, Fahrenheit 451, and The Great Gatsby. These…

Our founding fathers thought highly of the idea of freedom of speech. They make it the first amendment. Why do we value this amendment? What is exactly freedom of speech and are we, as Americans, truly free to say what we want? What are the limitations if we do not have true freedom? Even though, we value freedom of speech for four main reasons, it is up to us how far should our freedom should extend and that there are a few limitations to our right to freedom of speech. Americans have…

information, literary ideas, environmental and political debates, which in return inhibits communication and restrict written and oral expression. Censorship takes away the freedom to express ourselves as we see fit (first basic right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States’ constitution). Individuals normally challenge and ban books because they find them sensitive regardless of the truth spoken and communicated in the themes and lessons of the novel. The purpose…

Even so, hate speech remains largely legal, at least within the United States: banning any form of individual expression – as objectionable as some forms may be – runs counter to the democratic principle of freedom of speech that the government should uphold, according to some others. Nonetheless, the government should regulate hate speech in order to protect the rights and the safety…

Context Freedom of speech has been a foundation of the United States since its inclusion within the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights. As a right that every citizen in the country is granted, US citizens are allowed to express themselves freely without major repercussion because they are protected by the Constitution. However, on March 9, 1942, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that expression is divided into two categories: speech that has social value, or is “worthwhile speech,” and speech…