4. The Text “…Or Abridging the Freedom of Speech, or of the Press…”
5. The Text “…Or of the Right of the People to Peaceably Assemble, and To Petition the Government For a Redress of Grievances.”
6. First Amendment Rights Today Religious Makeup of the United States “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.” – Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Danbury Baptists, 1802
11. Picture Sources: Signing of Constitution: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scene_at_the_Signing_of_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States.png Bill of Rights: http://answers.yourdictionary.com/history/government/why-was-the-bill-of-rights-written.html Newseum: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newseum_5_Freedoms_1st_Amendment.jpg St. Patrick’s Cathedral: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inside_St._Patrick%27s_Cathedral.jpg Press Conference: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20061011-5_p101106pm-112jpg-515h.jpg Pew Forum Study: http://religions.pewforum.org/reports Westboro Baptist Church: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Westboro_BC_03022010_RichmondVa.jpg Woodward and Bernstein: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2005/06/02/national/02woodward2.ready.html Julian Assange: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Julian_Assange_%28Norway,_March_2010%29.jpg Free Speech Zone: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_amendment_zone2.jpg Text Source: Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to the Danbury Baptists, 1802. http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpre.html
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