Freedom_Of_Sppech_And_Expression

Freedom Of Sppech And Expression Freedom of Speech, Press and Expression "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?"(Amendment I of the constitution). In 1791 when this amendment of the constitution was ratified, it changed this country's history forever. When congress wrote it they had remembered the inequity of the Intolerable Acts and wanted to prevent that from happening again in the future of their new country. It was also very important to the colonists because England had censored and made their speech so restricted they were reduced to nearly nothing in society. Unfortunately today this amendment has been manipulated to an enormous level because people are censoring everything to an extreme level. The first amendment is not only one of the most important amendments in the Constitution, but also one that too many Americans exaggerate and take for granted today. England greatly impacted the development of this amendment. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England speech was so strict Parliament couldn't even debate the issues that they were to vote on. When they asked Queen Elizabeth to allow debate she said "Privilege of speech is granted, amendment, first, speech, advantage, said, press, because, should, been, about, yet, taken, rights, right, realize, people, new, book, baraka, wrote, word, wanted, today, taking, t-shirts, sniper, school, one, mr, expression, even, country, british, wallace, very