I need to know about the first Amendment extensively, NOT FOR School... Source?
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this webpage describes it to great detail\nhttp://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/First_amendment
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(Ah, sounds like a homework question)\nIt depends upon how literal you want to go with "not listed in the Constitution."\nThe biggest one is the right to privacy, which includes right to contraception (Griswold v. Conn.) the right to an abortion (Roe v. Wade) and the right to consensual private sexual conduct (Lawrence v. Texas). \nNext, I'd say rights that "spring" from dileaneated rights.  For example, the right to have "Miranda" warnings springs from the 5th Amendment Self-Incrimination Clause.  The right to flag burning and other "expressive conduct" springs from the First Amendment Free Speech Clause.  The right to be free from state sponsored segregation springs from the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause.  The right to (basically) unlimited spending of money for political speech springs from the First Amendment Free Speech clause.  \nIn all of those in the above paragraph, there is nothing in the constitution about getting Miranda warnings, about schools not being segregated, or about getting to spend as much money as you want, but the Courts have interpreted concrete clauses in the constitution as providing those rights.\n\nPowers not in the Constitution that are returned to the States / People:\nPower to regulate real property and conveyances thereof (almost exclusively state controlled)\nPower to enact generally applicable criminal laws (almost all criminal law is state law)\nPower to decide how Presidential Electors are chosen.\nPower of localities to regulate business licenses and zoning laws (not in contradition with federal civil rights)\n\nJust a few.
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Through the bill of rights; the first amendment protects our right to freedom of speech. This amendment cannot be changed unless repealed by a vote for another amendment to change this right.
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"I disapprove of what you say. I disagree with what you say. And I defend your right to say it."\n\nThis is the essence of free speech in a free society. I am very sad reading the posts here from people born and raised in America who still can't understand this basic concept.
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The first amendment says freedom of speech.\nThe Patriot Act allows the government to spy on you and arrest you if you "say" you're planning terrorism.\n\nThat's one link.
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Ummmm....the US Constitution?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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Technically, it isn't in the U.S. Constitution.  The Miranda Warning came about after Miranda vs. Arizona in 1960(?).  But it refers to the fifth amendment right that protects against self-incrimination, or "the right to remain silent".
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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These are some of your rights if that is what you mean\n\n1.The First Amendment guarantees the freedom of worship, of speech, of the press, of assembly, and of petition to the government for redress of grievances.\n2.The right to bear arms openly–adopted with reference to state militias–is guaranteed by the Second Amendment\n3.The Fifth Amendment provides that no person shall be held for "a capital or otherwise infamous crime" without indictment, be twice put in "jeopardy of life or limb" for the same offense, be compelled to testify against himself, or "be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law."\n4.The Sixth Amendment guarantees the right of speedy and public trial by an impartial jury\n5.Seventh Amendment guarantees the right of trial by jury\n6.The Ninth Amendment states that "The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."\n7.By the Tenth Amendment "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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http://www.geocities.com/haikucachoo/freedom.html\n\nhttp://www.cheathouse.com/essay/essay_view.php?p_essay_id=19771\n\nhttp://www.swimfinssf.com/2003/08/freedom_of_speech.html
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Looking more closely at this issue, I can see why you want a specific source.\n\nThe only person who I can find that claims Justice Thomas said this is Frank J Ranelli, in his piece "One Nation Under “Whose God is it Anyway?” from October 27, 2006.  As a columnist, he doesn't seem to feel the need to cite his sources.\n\nAnd the thing is, IF Justice Thomas did say this, it is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what he has said at other times.  Specifically, in the case of Elk Grove v. Newdow he puts in a long opinion about what the constitution has to say about the government's ability to suppress or endorse religion (link 1, below).  The specific quote that interests me is this:\n\n"The text and history of the Establishment Clause strongly suggest that it is a federalism provision intended to prevent Congress from interfering with state establishments."\n\nIn other words, Justice Thomas is of the opinion that it is PERFECTLY OKAY for any one or even all states to declare a state religion and eforce it.  Just not the federal government.  In other sections of his opinion on that case, he even says that other decisions which made other forms of religious expression illegal are just plain wrong.\n\nThus, if he DID make the statement that Ranelli says he did (which I cannot find an actual source for anywhere), it would seem to be contrary to his views expressed when he is actually doing his job.  A legally enforced, punishable, state-based religion is apparently peachy keen to him.  Yikes.
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http://www.questia.com/PM.qst;jsessionid=DCchThVQx3t1RxjjTYkzLh2Qr83s6l32QPGpqTylLlMk81VLlnNs!613\nhttp://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/8413\nhttp://www.questia.com/PM.qst;jsessionid=DCchThVQx3t1RxjjTYkzLh2Qr83s6l32QPGpqTylLlMk81VLlnNs!613\nhttp://www.accessmylibrary.com/comsite5/bin/comsite5.pl?page=library&item_id=0286-6067267\nhope this helps\narticles with quotes by authors
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Yes. And if you doubt that answer, ask people the following questions:\n\n1. What 5 rights are guaranteed by the 1st amendment (Speech, religion, petition the government, assemble, and press).\n\n2. What does the 10th amendment say?\n\nI doubt most people could get one right, much less two.
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The 4th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States;\n\nThe right of the people to be secure in thier persons, house, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.\n\nThats how it reads, however it has been left to interpretation by any number of authorities. In my interpretation probable cause was required to obtain a warrant in order to search , not cause for search.......\n\nHowever there have been so many other changes to our Constitution that the original bill of rights is mostly just a memory, and has been used and abused by the crooked, the greedy and the power hungry for too long\n\nVOTE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION....\nso that "We the People" can retake our country and reinstate our freedoms\n\nPeace to all...now more than ever...
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Richard H - I hate to tell you this, but Americans do not have a "right to privacy". We certainly have an EXPECTATION of privacy, and hundreds of years of legal standards have reinforced that expectation, but no right to it. If you can find the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, I sure would love to know where.\n\nIt most definitely DOES NOT violate the First Amendment. If it did, there are hundreds of liberal courts in this nation that would have struck it down long ago. Americans are still free to say what they want - even if it is against the government. Look at Al Gore recently when he said ON SAUDI ARABIAN SOIL in a speech sponsored by the BIN LADEN FAMILY that the US committed "terrible abuses against Muslims" after 9/11. Americans can SAY whatever they want - most Americans tend to forget that there are consequences to false or harmful statements. Remember shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater??\n\nThe Patriot Act merely lets intelligence agencies share intelligence to try to put two and two together - which was one of the biggest recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. I would love for you to point out documented cases of abuse due to the Patriot Act. You won't find any. The ACLU didn't find any, and if they can't with their resources, I doubt you will, either.\n\nplanksheer - It is NOT open season of First Amendment rights (see above reply to Richard H's uninformed post). The only people who have been denied those rights are detainees classified as terrorists and foreign combatants against the US military. They are not prisoners of war, and they have no rights under the Geneva Convention. Geneva Convention right are only conferred upon uniformed soldiers of an organized Army. The President has the legal right to hold them.\n\nGranted, courts have already ruled that the government must begin looking at their cases to hold them further, and the President is complying with that. If he had such disregard for the law and Constitution, President Bush would have waved the big middle finger when ordered to begin reviewing cases.\n\nAnd then we have Jose Padilla. An American who was going to explode a dirty bomb on American soil. He should NEVER see the light of day again. He is a traitor and should be treated as such. He deserves whatever he gets.\n\nPeople should do a little research before they are so quick to condemn something. Especially when their arguments are based in inaccuracies and misinformation. Think for yourselves, people. Don't just regurgitate crap that Michael Moore and his ilk put out.
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Check out this site, it is great.  http://www.libertyskids.com/\nalso a good one.  http://www.constitutioncenter.org/explore/ForKids/index.shtml\n\nHere are others I have found\n\nhttp://www.congressforkids.net/games/articlesofconfederation/2_artofconf.htm\nhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/constitution/backgrounder.html\nhttp://clerkkids.house.gov/games/index.html