The First Amendment

        Answer each these questions in a paragraph with at least five sentences: Include the question and number your responses accordingly. Provide a citation for each answer. 1. What kind of speech was the First Amendment written to protect? 2....

The First Amendment

What kind of speech was the First Amendment written to protect?Does the First Amendment apply only to spoken words?What does it mean that laws regulating speech must be content neutral?Why are common carriers prohibited from controlling the content of the material...

The First Amendment

The First Amendment clearly prohibits any restrictions on the freedom of speech. Does this mean that in the U.S. we have absolute freedom of speech? Identify the courts’ rules to regulate the following types of speech: obscenities, symbolic speech, and...

The First Amendment

You have a standard practice of displaying all student work in your classroom. Recently, you assigned students to write any essay and submit a pictorial depiction on the person they considered to be their hero. One of your students submitted an essay on Jesus and a...