The First Amendment In The US Constitution

The First Amendment in the United States’ Constitution has a great fundamental understanding of what American life should be, and shows the true intentions of our forefathers’ revolutionary ideas.The first amendment states that Congress may not interfere with the established rights that people have been given, one of which being the freedom of speech. The intent of the freedom of speech was that individuals could express their opinions and ideas without the fear of governmental censorship. The freedom of speech is often a tool for spreading ideals, opinions and fact, but is often an excuse for spreading lies and personal agendas. The first amendment is like a double-sided coin, as it can be used for the betterment of society and it could be used to advance immoral views.

To provide context of this amendment’s appearance in the Bill of Rights, one must see why the ideas of our forefathers were so “revolutionary”. In Pre-Revolutionary periods of the American Colonies, British Parliament had heavily
James Madison, a drafter of the Bill of Rights, intended to do so in order to possibly protect those in future instances who were justifyingly using their civil right as an American citizen to protect their natural born right to express their opinions and ideas. Through the evidence of Bradenbury vs. Ohio, the First Amendment may not only protect those who are morally just in their causes of expressing their opinions and ideologies, but also those who oppose these characteristics. This “freedom of speech clause” has been further tweaked in recent years, finding a perfect balance between the rulings of both the Schenck case and the Bradenbury vs. Ohio case. In today’s society, the freedom of speech is granted as a universal right, and is evenly distributed throughout the United States through just