Articles for tag: First Amendment, Religious Differences

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The Pros and Cons of Our First Amendment

In the news recently there have been multiple passionate conversations about our individual’s freedom of speech, the basis of our first amendment. What exactly is the first amendment? And why is the first amendment such a difficult issue when it comes to people exercising this right? Even today the right to follow the first amendment ...

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Obscenity, Internet Censorship and the First Amendment

The First Amendment ensures freedom of speech and of the press, expressions necessary to a democratic society, and the Internet has the potential to give many people in any society an open forum to voice their concerns and to reach a large audience. Pornography and other graphic materials existed before the Internet, but the technology’s ...

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The War for Free Speech on Campus

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” (Amendment 1, U.S. Constitution). A spirited debate is taking place ...

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Book Banning and the First Amendment

Benjamin Franklin once said, “If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.” It is impossible for any author to think of everyone who might pick up their books. It is impossible for any author to worry about every single reaction ...