Essays Tagged: "First Amendment"
American Freedom
unity to express our opinions, some members of society may be guilty of violating the bounds of the First Amendment by publicly offending others through obscenity or racism. Americans have developed a ... icans have developed a distinct disposition toward the freedom of expression throughout history.The First Amendment clearly voices a great American respect toward the freedom of religion. It also prev ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights
Seperation of Church and State
is the separation of church and state within the United States, dealing with predominantly with the First Amendment and how Americans respond to this amendment. Throughout history, there have been man ... ealing with the separation of church and state. The Engel vs. Vitale court case also deals with the First Amendment and, the on, that I will address the case of Engel versus Vitale. The First Amendmen ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government
Censorship
op Killer] is fiction, not fact. At no point did I go out and say'Let's do it.' I am singing in the first person as a character who is fed up with policebrutality. I ain't never killed no cop. I felt ... elevision and music industry. What exactly is censorship? Some feel censorship is aviolation of the first amendment right. Others say censorship is a must in the violent,abusive world we call 'society ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Should There Be Stricter Laws On Pornography?
s argue their side of this issue while having many of the same ideas as their opposing writers. The first is, 'I am a First Amendment Junkie', by Susan Jacoby. Susan has written many articles on women ... olumn in 1978. Jacoby believes that certain restrictions on pornography would be a violation of the first amendment. The second article is, 'Report of the President's Commission on Obscenity and Porno ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality
Pornography, should it be illegal or not?
phy should be illegal. I will defend the position that pornography should be kept legal by arguing, first, that pornography is beneficial to society, and secondly, that any position to make pornograph ... ety, and secondly, that any position to make pornography illegal would go against the rights of the first amendment.2. ArgumentMy argument is that pornography is beneficial to society. Pornography: ai ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Freedom in America. Speaks of t he freedom of speech, color, religion, cencorship etc..
unity to express our opinions, some members of society may be guilty of violating the bounds of the First Amendment by publicly offending others through obscenity or racism. Americans have developed a ... icans have developed a distinct disposition toward the freedom of expression throughout history.The First Amendment clearly voices a great American respect toward the freedom of religion. It also prev ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Save the Internet! Speaks of cencorship
nternet must be censored to the utmost.Many people complain that censorship is the violation of the first amendment and the suppression of freedom of speech but there is a point where freedom of speec ... e protection of children from a pornographer's freedom of speech. That must be inferred through the First Amendment.' These are our children and we have the right to protect them. The fact that pornog ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Internet regulation, Government Intervention of the Internet
s network is key to the future of the knowledge society. At present, this net is the epitome of the first amendment: free speech. It is a place where people can speaktheir mind without being reprimand ... late themselves. It all boils down to protecting children from adult material, while protecting the first amendment right to free speech between adults. Government attempts to regulate the Internet ar ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
The publics right to know. The Constitutional responsibility of the press.
The Constitutional responsibility of the press is to inform the public. The First Amendment comes into direct conflict with the rights and responsibilities of media coverage. T ... s logical or not. The Government imposes restrictions despite the apparently absolute nature of the First Amendment to the Constitution, which states "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freed ... hich makes him subject to the constant pressure of the news media. The person becomes a target. The first wrong move he makes will be on the front page of every newspaper and the top story of the even ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
Censorship and the First Amendment
The American Citizen's Right to Free SpeechAre we protected from censorship under the First Amendment? In other words do individuals or groups have the right or the power to examine mate ... anything they consider objectionable? This argument has been progressing for centuries, in fact the first notable case was against John Peter Zenger, in 1743. Zenger was an editor of a New York coloni ... ee press, to gather and publish information without being under control or power of another, in the First Amendment to the Constitution. So why do we need to be concerned if we, as citizens, have been ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
The case Engle vs Vitale
in Ethical Curture Society, which focused on social welfare, one was an Atheist. The said that the first amendment was being violated. The first amendment prohibits the government from passing laws e ... take their case to court.In 1791, Madison wrote the Bill of Rights, which mentioned religion in the first amendment. The law was that no religion can be supported and no religion can be inhibited by t ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases
America, Land of the free. Discusses what would happen if it didn't have the freedom of press, and the freedom of speech
lation of souls unwilling to create because of the ever looming presence of big brother.Without the first amendment, America would be uneducated and uninformed. It is customary for most people to wake ... coming part of the god in the machine instead of discovering and creating new cultures. Without the first amendment we would stand as the United States of industry, and the crumbs of diversity.Life is ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Freedom Of Expression
unity to express our opinions, some members of society may be guilty of violating the bounds of the First Amendment by publicly offending others through obscenity or racism. Americans have developed a ... icans have developed a distinct disposition toward the freedom of expression throughout history.The First Amendment clearly voices a great American respect toward the freedom of religion. It also prev ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
I CAN SAY WHAT I WANT! This paper is of an argumentative nature in an attempt to prove one simple point...our Constitution is badly in need of repair.
d partake of illegal drugs or anything else illegal for that matter is allowed in accordance to the First Amendment of our Constitution. Yes, you read that correctly, it is legal to tell in detail how ... s legal to tell in detail how to make and properly consume illegal drugs. The student quoted in the first lines of this paper had access to a published manual explaining how to produce the illegal dru ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
The Destruction of 1st Amendment Rights In Our Schools
America, which contains the most important document toany American citizen, the Bill of Rights. The first amendment of theBill of Rights states:Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment o ... us nor obscene, but it didcriticize teachers and administrators calling them 'fascist dictators'.At first I was angry at the school because I could wear clothing thatwas obscene or contained liquor ad ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
The Evolution of the First Amendment
- The Evolution of the First AmendmentThe first amendment states, 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment o ... act of civil disobedience, the Boston Tea Party.(Eldridge,15)The stage was set for the birth of the First Amendment, which formally recognized the natural and inalienable rights of Americans to think ... formally recognized the natural and inalienable rights of Americans to think and speak freely. The first Amendments early years were not entirely auspicious. Although the early Americans enjoyed grea ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace
mmer is charged with illegal export of munitions. The three defendants in these cases felt that the First Amendment protected them, but it was not the case.Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace is precise in its ... ed to write savage, pornographic snuff stories and post them to the Internet. Always written in the first person and tinged with an eerie realism, his tales were simple, explicit, and gruesome."She's ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Freedom Of Speech. Describes the 1st Amendment, particularly freedom of speech, and why it is important.
The First Amendment states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or ... etition the Government for a redress of grievances." The most important of the rights listed in the First Amendment is the right that gives everyone freedom of speech. It is so important because witho ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
The Responsibility of Journalists to accuracy and ethical principles.
nalists also face demands for production and deadlines in a corporate culture that pushes to be the first to break the news. Journalists are obligated to report the news, not make it. Though the First ... raudulently. Irresponsible journalism sowed the seeds of this mistrust as newsmen hurried to be the first to announce the winner long before a victor could be accurately determined. In an extremely cl ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
Censorship of Huckleberry Finn??
are here to discuss the matter of Huckleberry Finn and should it be banned from public schools. The first amendment states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers