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What the First Amendment protects and what it does not?
The First Amendment only protects your speech from government censorship. It applies to federal, state, and local government actors. This is a broad category that includes not only lawmakers and elected officials, but also public schools and universities, courts, and police officers.
Which freedom protected is not in the First Amendment?
Obscenity. Fighting words. Defamation (including libel and slander) Child pornography.
What is protected under the 1st amendment?
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.
What does the First Amendment protect against?
The First Amendment guarantees freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition. It forbids Congress from both promoting one religion over others and also restricting an individual’s religious practices.
What does the freedom of petition protect?
The right to petition is one of the fundamental freedoms of all Americans, and is documented in the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. A more simple definition of the right to petition, is “the right to present requests to the government without punishment or reprisal.
What are the 6 rights of the First Amendment?
The six freedoms of expression guaranteed in the first amendment are; 1. Freedom from religion, 2. Freedom of religion, 3. Freedom of speech,
What rights are guaranteed in the First Amendment?
There are other rights guaranteed in the First Amendment: the right to the free exercise of any religion, the right of peaceful assembly, and the right to petition the government to redress grievances.
What type of speech is not protected by the First Amendment?
Categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection by the First Amendment (and therefore may be restricted) include obscenity, fraud, child pornography, speech integral to illegal conduct, speech that incites imminent lawless action, speech that violates intellectual property law, true threats, and commercial speech such as advertising.
What are the good things about the First Amendment?
The first amendment is perhaps the most important part of the U.S. Constitution because the amendment guarantees citizens freedom of religion, speech, writing and publishing, peaceful assembly, and the freedom to raise grievances with the Government.