Importance Of The First Amendment

The first amendment is the most well know amendment in the bill of rights. It is the right to freedom of speech, religion, and to peacefully assemble. Virginia colonial legislature created the "declarations of rights" in 1776 after two years of being in the American Revolutionary War. Afterwards they made some changes to the constitution and made it better. At first 9 colonies were authorize but later the u.s constitution was authorized by all 13 colonies. The bill of rights and first amendment were adopted in dec 15, 1791. Throughout the years since this amendment was first presented many cases appeared. Three of the cases I'll be talking about were by the Supreme Court ; Flast v. Cohen , Cox v. Louisiana , United States v. Alvarez.
The U.S v Alvarez was a very recent case that happened in 2012, it was in which the court struck down the stolen valor act. The law violated his first amendment freedom of speech. After the court appealed for the ninth circuit with Alvarez and reversed his conviction. Cox v Louisiana, that a state governor can't be employ "breach of the peace" statutes against protesters engaging in a peaceful demonstration that may lead to violence. This violated their right to peacefully assemble. One of the last cases I did research on was the Flast v Cohen, the federal courts should have defer when confronted with tax pay suits directed against federal spending programs.