the constitution
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of Religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech," this Amendment is the most important part of the constitution. Without free speech, we the people of the United States would not be able to speak openly and freely about issues that affect our everyday life. Had it not been for Katie Stanton and Susan B. Anthony exercising their first amendment right to free speech and peaceful assembly, and the press covering and catching the women's suffrage movement it is possible that women may not have gained the legal right to vote until many years later. Many amendments to the Constitution were started by people exercising their first amendment rights, by utilizing the rights to free speech, peaceful assembly and freedom of press. When people use their first amendment rights effectively, they make people listen and when people listen, change occurs. Many of the laws we have in society today were passe
d in part by free speech. When people started pulling together to desegregate schools the government listened, it acted and passed laws against it. Due to people using their first amendment rights the Civil Rights Act was put into effect in 1964. Ultimately when you think about the most important aspect of the Constitution, you always remember the first amendment, and the rights it grants you. Without these rights, our country might not have prospered as much as it has and continues to. Without the first amendment, people would not be able to make changes, which society benefits from. Everyone in the nation reaps the rewards of free speech. Whether or not they choose to exercise that right, they know in their minds, that if the need ever arises, they live in a nation that guarantees freedom of speech. DR. Martin Luther King Jr. used free speech and the right to public assembly when he spoke from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. and people listened and change was brought about by hi
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