First Amendment Strengths And Limitations
The Constitution is a document in the United States that many people use every single day to explain a persons’ rights and freedom as a human in his country. The biggest part of the constitution to me is the first amendment. I believe the biggest issue in this country with the constitution occurs in the First amendment. With the flood of social media, harassment and bullying are being taking to new heights. While political correctness may be a relatively new concept, Freedom of Speech is the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. While we fight to maintain our nation’s freedoms, sometimes it seems as though the First Amendment causes great harm within the country itself. Too many people hide behind the veil of claiming “Freedom of Speech”
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The crowd as well as the players hurled slurs at our team that I had never even heard of! After listening to them the entire first quarter, I understood them to be saying that a group of Hispanics and African- Americans didn’t belong in “their” gym or “their” city or “their” country. As a typical male teenager, my first instinct was to start throwing punches at them! Cries of, “I can say what I want in this country” were heard before a full-blown bench clearing occurred. Limitations exist for a reason. The only difference between our team and the team we were playing was our ethnicity, we were better athletically. The sole purpose of their words was to inflict injury, rile us up and get us thrown out of the tournament. Their freedom of speech was not protected because their purpose was to incite violence.
Another limitation of the First Amendment is slander or libel. Cyber-bullying may fall into this category. If a group of kids want to “outcast” another kid, it is easy for them to post lies and false stories about the kid to make him look bad. The whole intent of the group is to make others dislike the particular kid, and the malicious intent in their actions leaves them unprotected under Freedom of Speech. They have not only inflicted injury on another kid, but by publishing false words, violated the limitations of the First
The crowd as well as the players hurled slurs at our team that I had never even heard of! After listening to them the entire first quarter, I understood them to be saying that a group of Hispanics and African- Americans didn’t belong in “their” gym or “their” city or “their” country. As a typical male teenager, my first instinct was to start throwing punches at them! Cries of, “I can say what I want in this country” were heard before a full-blown bench clearing occurred. Limitations exist for a reason. The only difference between our team and the team we were playing was our ethnicity, we were better athletically. The sole purpose of their words was to inflict injury, rile us up and get us thrown out of the tournament. Their freedom of speech was not protected because their purpose was to incite violence.
Another limitation of the First Amendment is slander or libel. Cyber-bullying may fall into this category. If a group of kids want to “outcast” another kid, it is easy for them to post lies and false stories about the kid to make him look bad. The whole intent of the group is to make others dislike the particular kid, and the malicious intent in their actions leaves them unprotected under Freedom of Speech. They have not only inflicted injury on another kid, but by publishing false words, violated the limitations of the First