A. The First Amendment created a privilege that protects reporters from divulging confidential sources because the original intent of freedom of the press was to protect reporters from media retaliation and this Court recognized this privilege in Branzburg v. United states. The First Amendment granted reporters wide protection because the very intent of the founding generation was to protect the press, and the free flow of information that reporters create, from oppressive government interference
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students to have any opinions on, really, anything. Many schools also have the tendency to baby their students by allowing them to do anything with a few rules restricting the students. By limiting students from freedom of expression, religion, and privacy quite
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The First Amendment is the foundation of what America stands for. This amendment provides the ability for each Americans’ right to be free from governmental restrictions in a variety of methods whether it is speech, peaceful gatherings, or the practice of religion. The public society has the privilege to access criminal trials, which allows a deep examination and of the judicial process. Access to public trials increase the factual process of the judicial system and the integrity of the parties involved
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In 1984, Gregory Lee Johnson burnt an American flag in protest against Ronald Reagan and what he stands for. He burnt the flag in front of the Republican National Convention in Dallas Texas. He was arrested and fined for violating a Texas statute. Texas tried to convict Johnson but he kept on saying that he was using the 1st amendment. The Supreme Court decided to hear his case in 1989 In the Gregory Lee Johnson case, he went to jail for burning the American flag in a protest to president Ronald
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My parents never intend on scavenging through the books I read to find vulgar, sexual, or violent things. Parents are intentionally trying to find every last detail of every book to ban it from every student. Almost all books you read out in today's world are gonna have a curse word or sexual content. The idea that parents care so much as to try, and ban it from other students boggles my mind. If you don’t want your kid reading it that’s fine, but don’t limit other mature students from a book that
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Banning a book is never acceptable; books are a product of their environment, and readers can learn much about a time period in history and the literary influences from books, even if the language/content is not acceptable in our contemporary time period. Despite some of the language used in Huckleberry Finn, it should not be banned. Instead, the language used should be frankly discussed as to why it was included in the book, and the implications it had on the past and has on the present. The nature
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In the online book, Controversial Books Survey, “Non-age appropriate content” is the number one reason given for passing on a book at all school levels, trailed by possible reaction from parents and their institution’s guidelines"(Controversial). Censorship should not exist in schools. All over the country books in school libraries are being challenged for having controversial content. But this seems to only be a problem for the adults, not the kids. Shouldn't the ones reading the books decide what
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would be less informed of the significance of their choices. However, there are politicians who wish to challenge the First Amendment. With the possible exceptions of John Adams and Woodrow Wilson, there might never be a president more hostile to freedom of speech than Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton has promised, if elected, to introduce a constitutional amendment within her first month in office that would effectively repeal the First Amendment by overturning the Supreme Court’s Citizens United
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Texas v. Johnson: The Flag Burning Case In 1984 outside of a Dallas, Texas, Gregory Johnson was protesting Ronald Reagan’s policies outside of the Republican National Convention. Johnson was a member of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, where members would gather and destroy property in an protest called “War Chest Tours.” As the members reached Dallas City Hall, Johnson poured kerosene on a stolen flag and burned it. Johnson was taken into custody and charged with violating a Texas law
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westerners would argue that they had greater amounts of freedom than their sisters in eastern countries who were living under communist regimes. This assumption was based on the fact that the westerners saw that easterners under these regimes had fewer consumer choices than they had. Due to the lack of consumer choices, many western women would argue that their sisters living under the communist regimes had less freedom than they did. However, the freedom that an individual has does not come from the amount
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