The First Amendment question?

2008-09-21 1:55 am
My professor asked me about the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States( one sentence)
My answer is
"The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: making laws 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."
But my professor said this is "Not" the First Amendment.
Why? I do not know what's wrong.

回答 (4)

2008-09-21 3:48 pm
Try this out. I've also included a link for the Constitution.
I think it would have been better if you had said that the "First Amendment" prohibits the Government from interfering with the freedom of Religion, the press, speech, assembly, or the right to sue or criticize the government.
2008-09-21 2:04 am
The First Amendment doesn't "make laws." Its function is to guarantee the rights you have listed. The process of drafting specific laws to enforce these rights belongs to the legislature, and the judicial branch enforces the laws. Without these entities, the First Amendment would have no specific ways of being carried out; it would only be a philosophical principle.

In other words, the First Amendment has no "teeth" without the work of the legislature and the courts.
2008-09-21 2:02 am
it is simply put FREEDOM OF SPEECH. i think you were to specific
2008-09-21 2:01 am
James Madison was the most influential member of the Constitutional Convention and the driving force behind the creation and adoption of the Bill of Rights stated:

There remains . . . a strong bias toward the old error, that without some sort of alliance or coalition between government and religion neither can be duly supported. Such indeed is the tendency to such a coalition, and such is its corrupting influence on the parties, that the danger cannot be too carefully guarded. . . . Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance. . . . And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together . . . .

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