First Amendment

Examples of First Amendment in the following topics:

• The First Amendment

  • The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights.
  • State the restrictions imposed upon the federal government and the rights accorded individuals by the 1st Amendment

• The First Amendment

  • The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights and protects American civil liberties.
  • Originally, the First Amendment applied only to laws enacted by the Congress.
  • New York (1925), the Supreme Court has applied the First Amendment to each state.
  • The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees Americans the right to a free press.
  • The Fourteenth Amendment, depicted here, allowed for the incorporation of the First Amendment against the states.

• The 21st Amendment

  • The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920.
  • Joint Resolution Proposing the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution.

• Nationalizing the Bill of Rights

  • However, beginning in the 1920s, a series of United States Supreme Court decisions interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment to "incorporate" most portions of the Bill of Rights, making these portions, for the first time, enforceable against the state governments.
  • After the Fourteenth Amendment was passed, the Supreme Court debated how to incorporate the Bill of Rights into state legislation.
  • On the other hand, some believed that incorporation should be selective, in that only the rights deemed fundamental (like the rights protected under the First Amendment) should be applied to the states, and it should be a gradual process.
  • Black called for the nationalization of the first eight amendments of the Bill of Rights (Amendments 9 and 10 being patently connected to the powers of the federal government alone), and his most famous expression of this belief is found in his dissenting opinion in the Supreme Court case, Adamson v.
  • The Fourteenth Amendment, depicted here, allowed for the incorporation of the First Amendment against the states.

• The Second Amendment

  • The Second Amendment gives the right to bear arms, and can arguably apply to individuals or state militias depending on interpretation.
  • The Second Amendment to the US constitution was adopted in 1791 as part of the US Bill of Rights .
  • In the 20th century, the wording of Second Amendment has been the focus of controversy.
  • The First Amendment rights of free speech, freedom of association, and freedom of petition protect lobbying, including grassroots lobbying.
  • Summarize the key provision of the Second Amendment and the two rival interpretations of its application

• Incorporation Doctrine

  • The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
  • The first instance of incorporation include the case Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad v.
  • All of the provisions of Amendment I and Amendment II have been incorporated against the state, while the Third Amendment has not yet been incorporated (the Third Amendment refers to the prohibition on quartering of soldiers in civilian homes).
  • Amendment V, the right to due process, has been incorporated against the states.
  • The Fourteenth Amendment, depicted here, allowed for the incorporation of the First Amendment against the states.

• The 15th Amendment

  • The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits states from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race.
  • In the first post-Civil War legislature in South Carolina was 87 blacks to 40 whites.
  • The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (for example, slavery).
  • "The Fifteenth Amendment", an 1870 print celebrating the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in February 1870, and the advancements that African-Americans had made as a result of the Civil War.
  • State the group of citizens extended protection by the 15th Amendment

• The Civil War Amendments

  • The Civil War Amendments protected equality for emancipated slaves by banning slavery, defining citizenship, and ensuring voting rights.
  • The 13th (1865), 14th (1868), and 15th Amendments (1870) were the first amendments made to the U.S. constitution in 60 years.
  • Known collectively as the Civil War Amendments, they were designed to ensure the equality for recently emancipated slaves.
  • The first clause asserted that anyone born or naturalized in the U.S. is a citizen of the U.S. and of the state in which they live.
  • Even after the 14th Amendment, native people not paying taxes were not counted for representation.

• The 26th Amendment

  • The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution barred the states or federal government from setting a voting age higher than eighteen.
  • Eisenhower, in his 1954 State of the Union address, became the first president to publicly state his support for prohibiting age-based denials of suffrage for those 18 and older.
  • Joint Resolution Proposing the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

• Ratification of the Constitution

  • Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution on December 7, 1787.
  • Amendment 1: Establishes freedom of religion, speech, the press, assembly, and petition.
  • Amendment 7: Provides for the right to trial by jury in civil cases.
  • Amendment 8: Bans cruel and unusual punishment, and excessive fines or bail.
  • Amendment 10: Limits the powers of the federal government to only those specifically granted by the constitution.