AMENDEMENT 1

DEFINITION

• AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION GUARANTEEING THE
• RIGHTS OF FREE EXPRESSION AND ACTION THAT ARE FUNDAMENTAL
• TO DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT

FREEDOMS

• Assembly
• Press
• Religion
• Speech

R.A.V VS. ST.PAUL

• Teens burn cross on the lawn of african americans
• Teens charged under bias-motivated criminal ordinance
• Trial court dismissed it
• The state supreme court reversed
• R.A.V. Appealed to the supreme court, violation of the first amendment to restrain them

HISTORICAL REFERENCE

• 1774 18 baptist are jailed in Massachusetts
• Refused to pay taxes that support the congressional church

SUPREME COURT RIGHT TO ALLOW ANIT ABORTION PROTESTS

• Posted in New York Times
• "The great virtue of our first amendment is that it protects
• speech we hate just as vigorously as it protects speech we support"
• Women protesting outside abortion clinics to peacefully convince
• the women that they are making the wrong choice.