Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Established in the First Amendment
Directions:
Watch the Five Rights video. Answer the questions below. Post your answer.
- How can you exercise each of the rights protected in the First Amendment in school?
- For each of the 5 freedoms listed below, write two or three sentences explaining how you personally exercise this right.
- Think of a current event in the news, describe the current event and explain how it relates to the First Amendment.
- Comment on a fellow student's post
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.
You can exercise the rights from the first amendment in school through being able to express any of your own opinions on anything inside or outside of school and no one can stop or do anything to you from these actions.
ReplyDeleteFor the first freedom I express my religion very freely and openly to people and everyone knows what I worship. I also, go to church as often as I can to practice my religion and learn more about it freely.
For the second freedom I always am not afraid to speak my mind and give my opinion on topics even if people may disagree. I exercise my right in school and sports and anything else without having to worry about it being illegal or not right.
For the third freedom I do this through giving good and bad news to people or even sharing it on social media. I am able to give news on certain topics, like sports, maybe not covered by the government and it is never a problem to spread news because it is under my own protection and right to do it.
For the fourth freedom I am able to go out like trying times presently and protest with groups on opinions we think need to be addressed. So something like the Black Lives Matter protests have been an assembly of people I have been in and no one can be pushed away for these assemblies because we have the right to peacefully protest anything we think must be heard.
For the fifth and final freedom in all honesty I feel I have never undergone this right in my own personal right before. However I have seen others take part in some things like this in targeting the Government or any branch of it and disagreeing with maybe even how they are running the country and all the Government can do is listen because they have no right to make the people stop.
A current event that can really relate to the First Amendment and has been all over the news for months is the Black Lives Matter Movement. People are rightfully taking action in assembly, protesting, and even freedom of speech to exercise their rights and express their opinions on continued racism in the United States. With all of these protests nothing has been done by the Government to make sure people can’t do these protests as that is illegal for the Government to do, however it has come to some points where they must move people away because of violence and riots that took over some protests that were originally supposed to be peaceful.
On any school campus in this country, citizens are always allowed their First Amendment rights of free speech, practice of religion, freedom of the press, right to peaceably assemble, and petition the government.
ReplyDelete1) Personally, I exercise my First Amendment right through speaking my truth about my religious preferences and overarching convictions defining my character openly to those around me. If I were to peaceably assemble with others or even petition the government, I would be within the parameters of my own liberties as a citizen of this country.
2) I stand in my Second Amendment safeguard in tandem with my First Amendment right by advocating for the protection of myself and others around me. I do not own an armed weapon myself, but others who do are legally able to in the current governmental regulatory climate.
3) My Third Amendment right enables me protection within my own home, with no infringement from others to be quartered in my personal domicile without approval. I am very much cognizant and am more than willing to advocate for one's rightful protection within their own home.
4) Through my Fourth Amendment right, if my home or personal property were two be violated under an unreasonable search or seizure, I'd have the viable Constitution to report the acts as a severe infringement of privacy. I've never encountered any situation where I had to utilize these principles (and hopefully never will), but they are in my cognitive arsenal at all times.
5) In reference to the Fifth Amendment, I've never been convicted or suspected of a crime, so I've never had to assess and then argue the rights embedded in this amendment. If I were to in a hypothetical situation, I definitely bring up my right of due process and a fair trial, if tried.