First Amendment

(noun)

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.

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Examples of First Amendment in the following topics:

  • Religion in the U.S.

    • Due to the First Amendment, which grants freedom of religion, there is a diversity of religious beliefs and practices in the U.S.
    • A wide variety of religious choices have been available to the U.S. population due to the First Amendment of the Constitution, which allows freedom of religion.
    • The First Amendment specifically denies the Federal Government the power to enact any law respecting either an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise.

  • Religious Diversity

    • The United States under the First Amendment allows people to practice their religious beliefs, despite differences in creed or culture.

  • Gender Inequality in Politics

    • Angela Merkel is the first female Chancellor of Germany and Chairwoman of Christian Democratic Union.
    • In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, which provided:
    • To appreciate the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, one must look back to the mid-nineteenth century.
    • The Nineteenth Amendment was passed the year following the Treaty of Paris, which ended World War I.
    • In 1981, President Ronald Reagan named Sandra Day O'Connor as the first female Supreme Court justice.

  • Segregation

    • After the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in America, racial discrimination became regulated by the so-called Jim Crow laws—strict mandates on segregation of the races.
    • In 2008, the United States elected its first African American President.

  • Women as a Minority

    • It should be noted that gender discrimination also ties in with race and class discrimination -- a concept known as "intersectionality," first named by feminist sociologist KimberlĂ© Crenshaw.
    • In the United States, women were treated as second-class citizens and not given the right to vote until 1920, when the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S.

  • The Political Participation of Women

    • Women's suffrage in the United States was achieved gradually, at state and local levels, during the 19th century and early 20th century, culminating in 1920 with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
    • NOW was one important group that fought for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

  • The Transfer of Authority

    • This was specified in the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution.

  • Discrimination Against Individuals

    • In a 1979 consultation on the issue, the United States commission on civil rights defined religious discrimination in relation to the civil rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which deals with due process and equal fairness of all citizens under the law.

  • Why study demography?

    • ., World Systems Theory), especially at the macro and/or societal levels, sociologists should first turn to demographic indicators for possible explanations.
    • For instance, in examining the elements that led to the first World War, most people turn to political and diplomatic conflicts but fail to consider the implications of expanding populations in the European countries involved.
    • In this fashion, demographic indicators are often informative in explaining world events and should be turned to first as explanations.

  • Statistical Trends in Divorce

    • Divorce statistics vary across the world, but on average, first marriages that end in divorce last about eight years.
    • Of the first marriages for women from 1955 to 1959, about 79% marked their 15th anniversary, compared with only 57% for women who married for the first time from 1985 to 1989.
    • On average, first marriages that end in divorce last about eight years.
    • Of the first marriages for women from 1955 to 1959, about 79% marked their 15th anniversary, compared with only 57% for women who married for the first time from 1985 to 1989.