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The First Amendment,[object Object],	“Congress shall make no law 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.”,[object Object]
Origins of The First Amendment,[object Object],		The founding father most concerned with free speech and free religious exercise was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson convinced James Madison to propose the Bill of Rights, and the First Amendment was Jefferson's top priority.,[object Object]
On Your Own,[object Object],	What freedoms are protected by the First Amendment?,[object Object],1. ,[object Object],2. ,[object Object],3. ,[object Object],4. ,[object Object]
Should What We Read Ever Be Limited?,[object Object],Class discussion: ,[object Object],For adults?,[object Object],For children (anyone under 18)?,[object Object],In school? ,[object Object],In public?,[object Object],Material that is indecent or obscene?,[object Object],Who should get to decide? ,[object Object],On your own: Answer the question above.,[object Object]
Case Study: Lady Chatterley’s Lover,[object Object],In 1957, Roth v. United States – (a Supreme Court case involving a bookseller who sent erotic literature through the mail) ruled that the First Amendment did NOT apply to obscenity.,[object Object],In 1959, Mr. Rosset (owner of Grove Press) sued the U.S. Post Office for confiscating copies of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence. He won.,[object Object]
Lady Chatterley’s Lover,[object Object],	Of the 1957 Roth case, Justice William Brennan noted that the First Amendment’s purpose was to “assure an unfettered interchange of ideas” and that “all ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance – unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion – have the full protection of the guarantees.” ,[object Object]
Obscene, but Socially Important?,[object Object]
The Importance of Theme,[object Object],Rembar argued that although sections Lady Chatterley’s Lover might be considered obscene by some, it still had social merit because it was “a novel of ideas that inveighed against sex without love, the mechanization of industrial life and morbid hypocrisy.” ,[object Object]
Obscenity Law,[object Object],	When the Supreme Court codified obscenity law in Miller v. California (1972), it established that a work could not be classified as obscene unless it could be demonstrated that "taken as a whole, (it) lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.”,[object Object]
What’s This Got To Do With My Book? ,[object Object],Banning a book is a denial of First Amendment rights.,[object Object],But children, above all, are protected by the laws of our country. ,[object Object],So, where does that leave your book? Should it be banned? ,[object Object],And, how will you MAKE YOUR CASE (in writing)? ,[object Object]
Works Cited,[object Object],Head, By Tom. "First Amendment - The Text, Origins, and Meaning of the First Amendment." Civil Liberties at About.com - Your Guide to Civil Liberties News and Issues. Web. 14 Nov. 2010. <http://civilliberty.about.com/od/firstamendment/tp/First-Amendment.htm>.,[object Object],Kaplan, Fred. "The Day Obscenity Became Art." Nytimes.com. The New York Times, 21 July 2009. Web. 14 Nov. 2010. <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/opinion/21kaplan.html>. ,[object Object],"Lady Chatterley's Lover." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 14 Nov. 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Chatterley's_Lover>.,[object Object]

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