Bill Of Rights Essay
Free speech is America’s morning coffee, if you don’t have it you’ll express how you feel. Both free expression and religious freedom need protection from those who would meddle with it. Free speech and freedom of religion are suppose to be everyone’s right, but somehow the government seems to still have some control over it.
The first ten amendments, which make up the so called Bill of Rights, were designed to calm the fears of the mild opponents of the Constitution in its original form. On September 25, 1789, the First Congress of the United States therefore proposed to the state legislatures 12 amendments to the Constitution that met arguments most frequently advanced against it. The first amendment states, “Congress shall make no law …show more content…
In 2011, the Town of Fountain Hills, Arizona, placed on the November 2011 ballot a bond issue to pay for road reconstruction. The court case follows. “On October 6, 2011, Plaintiff Dina Galassini sent an email to 23 friends and neighbors explaining why people should oppose the bond. Ms. Galassini called on the email recipients to make their own signs opposing the bond—the signs were to say things like "Vote No on the Bond, "Bonds are BONDAGE," etc.—and join her at one or both of two planned protest rallies in the Town. Ms. Galassini wasn’t able to protest about opposing a bond in the state of Arizona. “Please be advised that according to State Statutes, as specifically outlined in Title 16, one or more persons working to impact the results of an election are considered to be a Political Action Committee (PAC) subject to all of the requirements associated with a PAC.” Ms.Galassini felt her rights were being violated, but in order for her to make her protest she had to go through many committees and organizations, that is what the state of Arizona requires. In another case a young middle scholar was not allowed to use her speech for graduation because the principal thought her speech was too religious. Her speech follows, “As we say our goodbyes and leave middle school behind, I say to you, may the LORD bless you and keep you; make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you; lift up His
The first ten amendments, which make up the so called Bill of Rights, were designed to calm the fears of the mild opponents of the Constitution in its original form. On September 25, 1789, the First Congress of the United States therefore proposed to the state legislatures 12 amendments to the Constitution that met arguments most frequently advanced against it. The first amendment states, “Congress shall make no law …show more content…
In 2011, the Town of Fountain Hills, Arizona, placed on the November 2011 ballot a bond issue to pay for road reconstruction. The court case follows. “On October 6, 2011, Plaintiff Dina Galassini sent an email to 23 friends and neighbors explaining why people should oppose the bond. Ms. Galassini called on the email recipients to make their own signs opposing the bond—the signs were to say things like "Vote No on the Bond, "Bonds are BONDAGE," etc.—and join her at one or both of two planned protest rallies in the Town. Ms. Galassini wasn’t able to protest about opposing a bond in the state of Arizona. “Please be advised that according to State Statutes, as specifically outlined in Title 16, one or more persons working to impact the results of an election are considered to be a Political Action Committee (PAC) subject to all of the requirements associated with a PAC.” Ms.Galassini felt her rights were being violated, but in order for her to make her protest she had to go through many committees and organizations, that is what the state of Arizona requires. In another case a young middle scholar was not allowed to use her speech for graduation because the principal thought her speech was too religious. Her speech follows, “As we say our goodbyes and leave middle school behind, I say to you, may the LORD bless you and keep you; make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you; lift up His