Amendment01


 * ** Amendment Summary ** || **The first amendment congress should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise there of. Or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. The right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Protect the first amendment. :)** ||
 * ** Key amendment quotes ** || **1."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.”**
 * http://www.ala.org/offices/oif/ifissues/issuesrelatedlinks/quotations**
 * http://www.ala.org/offices/oif/ifissues/issuesrelatedlinks/quotations**

**2." If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.” ** **http://www.ala.org/offices/oif/ifissues/issuesrelatedlinks/quotations**

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 * 3.“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”**
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 * **Date Proposed:** || **9/25/1789** ||
 * **Date Ratified:** || **12/15/1791** ||
 * **This amendment is currently alive or dead** || **The first amendment is currently alive.** ||
 * **Court cases about this amendment** || **~Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697, 51 S.Ct. 625, 75 L.Ed. 1357 (1931):**
 * In this case, the Supreme Court interpreted the First and Fourteenth Amendments to forbid "previous restraints" upon publication of a newspaper. "Previous restraints"--or in current terminology, "prior restraints--suppress the freedom of the press to publish without obstruction, and recognize that lawsuits or prosecutions for libel are "subsequent punishments." The Court invalidated as an infringement of constitutional guarantees a Minnesota statue allowing specified government officials or private citizens to maintain a lawsuit in the name of the State to suppress a public nuisance and enjoin the publication of future issues of a "malicious, scandalous and defamatory newspaper, magazine or other periodical," unless the publisher can prove "the truth was published with good motives and for justifiable ends."** ||
 * **Three or four pictures or diagrams that EXPLAIN your amendment** || [[image:http://musicians4freedom.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/first-amendment.jpg]]

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 * **Citation** || [|1].
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 * **`Five questions about Amendment facts on YOUR page** || **1. When was the first amendment proposed?**
 * 2. When was the first amendment ratified?**
 * 3. Is this amendment currently alive or dead?**
 * 4. What is the first amendments main idea?**
 * 5. The first and fourteenth amendment want to forbid what?** ||