Freedom of speech is a constitutional right based upon 1st amendment. The 1st amendment establishes a safety net‚ for people to speak their minds about anything within the confines of the law.This might create problems for society‚ especially colleges has a lot of different races‚ cultures‚ and maturity. Even though‚ majority colleges are policing free speech. Colleges should allow students to freely express their personal beliefs as long as it not physically offending someone or discriminating
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and what makes this country what is is today. Freedom of speech is one of the most valued right‚ because you are allowed to say what is on your mind and not go to jail.Protesting is an example of people believing of freedom of speech. Protesters are saying what they want and trying to get what they want. If there is a president that the country doesn’t want to be elected as a president the people of the country can protest against him or her. Freedom of religion is another example of a right that
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The city of Boerne v. Flores case was ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court in the basis that the religious freedom restoration act (RFRA) surpass the powers of the congress on June 25‚ 1997. The religious freedom restoration act (RFRA) had been enacted in 1993. The claims appraised in the case could not be applied in the states although they were constitutional in regard to the federal actions. The case started in 1993 after archbishop of San Antonio was denied the permit to expand the local Catholic
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Consider the importance of the Religious Right in US politics Originally‚ the founding fathers sated in the declaration of independence that they wished to keep religion and government separate‚ a task they succeeded with until around the 1970s‚ when the religious views of candidates became more and more of an important topic for elections. In a country where 8 out of 10 people say they belong to a religion and 6 out of 10 pray weekly or more‚ it is hard for politicians not to be religious. This does
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Is there really freedom of speech in America or are some speeches to offensive to ever be considered free speech? This is exactly the question that is being answered in Lee vs. Tam‚ which debate s whether a certain word can be considered a racial slur. The Court’s decision today plays a monumental role in the way that freedom of speech cases will be handled in the future. On November 24‚ 2011‚ Simon Tam and his band called The Slants‚ an Oregon based band of Asian Americans‚ sought to register the
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During the 1600’s the Puritans came to America for religious freedom. When they arrived they found that a few people wouldn’t follow the strict new rules that they had set in place. They soon started calling them out as witches‚ and so the Salem witch trials began. But to know about the Salem Witch trials first you have to know who started them. Once you know who started them then you need to know what happened. How could you tell someone was a witch? How were these people prosecuted? Who were these
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Anne Hutchinson: A Pioneer of Feminism and Religious Freedom I walked into the schoolroom‚ and I could see my children sitting in rows based on their grade. I had been asked by the teacher‚ Miss Ashbury‚ to come and talk about the remarkable journey that led me to the Narragansett‚ an Indian territory in the liberating colony of Rhode Island. I sat down in the creaky wooden rocking chair and began my tale: “Hello‚ children! I will be telling you the story of how I ended up in Rhode Island‚ where
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is the Importance of Freedom of Thought because everyone has different thoughts and ideas. Without a Freedom of Thought‚ there wouldn’t be any changes at all. Everyone rejected what Bertram Cates believed in for it wasn’t related to creationism. Instead‚ it is about how we are created through evolution. It doesn’t prove anything about putting a man on trial. Just because someone doesn’t have the same thought as one has‚ one does not have to be
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After another intense reading‚ James Fenimore Cooper demonstrates how these religious groups try to seek the truth and it also explains how different religious groups were formed throughout the years in the United States. As I was finishing reading it made me think deeply on how these churches were introduced in America and it gets more interesting when many of these religious groups’ beliefs and morality are differ from one another. I strongly accept that Thomas Jefferson was a heroic man because
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Establishing Religious Freedom produces the fundamental statement “God hath created the mind free‚ and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of constraint‚ (“From Jefferson to Brandeis: The First Amendment‚ the Declaration‚ and the Constitution | Constitution Center”)” His intention was to acknowledge that people have the natural right to freedom of thought. A.I‚ the generation of ideas from a computer‚ is taking away this freedom by artificially
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