Assignment 2.03 Amendment selected: First Amendment The first amendment was written due to the fact that most of the citizens demanded their basic freedoms. (“Congress will make no law respecting an establishment of the religion, and prohibiting the free exercise of; or abridging the freedom of speech, and of the press; and right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.’’) What is the personal liberty defined in the Amendment? The first amendment is referred to as Freedom of Religion. This amendment guarantees freedom of religion in two types of ways; one is preventing the government from establishing an official church. And the second is free will to worship as they please to their religion.
In 1787 a group of individuals met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to construct a document that would forever change American history. This document, later called, the Constitution for the United States of America. Within this document are several amendments. The first of these or the 1st amendment states that, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or 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”. ( ) The bottom line of this first amendment is very clear.
The notion that religion is of no significance to the growth and well-being of the American society is fraught with danger. This cornucopia of differing culture demands a common thread that binds its citizens together. It astounds me how our judiciary came to the erroneous conclusion that the First Amendment implies that religion should not pay a role in our democratic republic. I believe the founders, as forwarding thinking as they were, would have provided a more closed language, had they known that this statement:” Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” (p.11.2008),This Amendment that was meant to buttress the anti federalist position on government interference with
Kienan Johnigan Col. Rosenbaum December 3rd, 2012 JROTC Morality in the Constitution “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” — John Adams”. The United States constitution, just like any other document is due to interpretation; in our country when light is shined on a specific situation, we go to the court to solve it but if a highly important man to our country says the constitution, the doctrine that runs our country is only for moral and religious reasons, Is our country blindly being ruled over predominantly religion, or morality? Natural Law posits that there is a Creator, that we all have to answer to the Creator and the best way to guarantee our
For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here (Thinking).” Here, Patrick Henry went against the very first Amendment to the Constitution, which asserts, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…(Bill of Rights)” In saying that the United States was indeed founded on the religious practices and morals of Christian life, Henry stood for everything that all the Founding Fathers believed as a whole. Several people would agree with him, saying that the only reason religious freedom is allowed is because those who originally governed the U.S. were good Christian men, and therefore welcomed with open arms any of those who fled to America in pursuit of liberty of religious persecution
12. Free exercise clause is the First Amendment clause that protects a citizens' right to believe and practice whatever religion he or she chooses. Jehovah's Witnesses' children had been subjected induced the Court to reverse itself and to endorse the free exercise of religion even when it may be offensive to the beliefs of the majority. 13. Congress literally reversed the Court's 1990 decision with the enactment of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, forbidding any federal agency on state government to restrict a person's free exercise of religion unless the federal agency or state government demonstrates that its action "furthers a compelling government interest" and "is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental
Jefferson stated in his speech, “having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered,” I again refer to the First Amendment for the freedom of religion, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;” The freedom of religion allows all the people in America to practice their own religion without being criticized and spat at. If you are Baptist or Catholic you can practice without being yelled at or put to death like they did in the Victorian Ages where if you didn’t believe in the Queen’s or King’s religion you could be put to
The First Amendment and Pornography Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or 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. —The First Amendment to the United States Constitution Like parents, politicians, educators, and other concerned adults, the United States Supreme Court has struggled to establish the right balance between free-speech protection and laws enacted to curtail the spread of pornography. The first case that really dealt with pornography and the potential violation of the Freedom of Speech was Roth v. United States, and its companion case Alberts v California, 354 U.S. 476 (1957) In Roth v. United States, Roth published and sold books, photographs and magazines in New York, using circulars and advertising matter to solicit sales. He was convicted of mailing obscene circulars and advertising and an obscene book in violation of the federal obscenity statute which stated: Every obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy book, pamphlet, picture, paper, letter, writing, print, or other publication of an indecent character... is declared to be nonmailable matter... Whoever knowingly deposits for mailing or delivery, anything declared by this section to be nonmailable, or knowingly takes the same from the mails for the purpose of circulating or disposing thereof, or of aiding in the circulation or disposition thereof, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. In Alberts v. California,Alberts ran a mail-order business from Los Angeles and was convicted under a misdemeanor complaint which charged him with lewdly keeping for sale obscene and indecent books, and with writing, composing and publishing an obscene advertisement of them, in
In an overview, they express hostility towards big government, big business, big national debt, and big taxes. Their beliefs are surrounded upon the Constitution. “The constitution is a timeless document that guarantees our basic freedoms” (Tea Party Patriots). They claim to support all personal freedoms, as long as no harm comes to others or take away rights from other American people. The Tea Party movement believes no American President, Democrat, nor Republican should ever go beyond the Constitution, regardless of the issue at hand.
These three are the most important of all of the amendments in the Bill of Rights. It is important that we have amendment one, which allows American citizens the freedom of religion. Freedom of religion is very important to our country, and as individuals we should be allowed to worship the one true God, or anything else we want. Citizens should be allowed to make whatever comments they would want about the government and not get punished or thrown in jail. Without this amendment Americans would be afraid of the government and afraid to be vocal if the government is involved in wrong doing.