First Amendment to the United States Constitution

well-argued question asked by liberals and conservatives. Do students who are attending college universities have the right to protest on campus? Right off the bat, Glaude categorizes conservatives as those who are against freedom of speech. This is the first small yet obvious piece of bias- bagging on conservatives. By placing them in this category, students now look at all conservatives as people who are not only against their protest, but against any ideas the students may be protesting.…

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution states that the government cannot infringe upon the freedom of speech and media’s press coverage, but in recent years the government seems more determined to censor what is released in the media. According to free-lance journalist, Edward Bishop, “there is … a closeness between journalism and the government that most people would be shocked if they knew about” (Csapó-Sweet and Kopper, 2001, 19:50). The media allows people a way to express…

After the signing of the Constitution, the role of the press increased as time went on. It became easier for citizens to get information because technology was advancing. The printing press had already been invented but there were advancements made to make the machine more efficient. It became power driven making it easier to print more in a smaller amount of time. Offset printing became popular for books and magazines so that they could be in color. By 1950, the internet came along and…

are told what to believe and what is accepted. Colleges should focus on encouraging debate, group acceptance, and the proper reaction to adversity. I believe that debate should not be limited in a college setting. A professor should be allowed to state his beliefs and students…

The chief reason speech is thought as an unrestricted and unlimited right is from the misunderstanding of the nature of the constitution, primarily the First Amendment. First, it must be recognized that there are no absolute rights. Though the amendment reads, “Congress [and state governments following the 1868 ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment] shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech”, the seemingly and often misinterpreted infinite nature of the freedom of speech clause is…

Must Be Protected was extremely compelling. The way the article is set up was very effective in drawing in the audience. The ACLU starts off the article by stating and making clear the rights citizens are guaranteed by the first amendment. By stating the constitution in the first paragraph they helped clarify what is rights one has as well as giving readers an idea of what the argument is going to be about.…

realize the impacts that will eventually follow, limiting speech has to limit all other freedoms. How is it possible to have free expression of religion without free speech? How about freedom of press without speech? James Madison, the creator of the First…

represents a violation of not only a violation of the establishment clause, but is a situation which is easily rectified without the threat of violating the students’ right to free speech. Where the precedents have been set for determining that the state has violated the establishment clause through Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971) and Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe, 530 U.S. 290 (2000), and precedents set through Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, 484 U.S. 260 (1988) and Bethel School…

Hobbes’ social contract, in which people empower a state in exchange…

as of lately. Even though learning about religion is permitted in public schools it still sits on very shaky ground. There is a very fine line on what is appropriate to talk about in school, and what is not appropriate. The first amendment to the United States Constitution says that 'congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof' which implies that you have the choice of exercising your own religion, no matter what it may be.…