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Amendments Of The First Amendment

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First Amendment: 1. The first amendment addresses that people have the freedom to practice and engage in a religion and the government cannot impose on this right. This same amendment also states that we have a right and freedom of speech, press, petition the government and also peaceful assemblies of people (so protest or even walks for different causes). 2(a): In North Carolina, there was a law that banned sex offenders from using social media in efforts of deterring them from preying on people through the means of the internet. Although this would sound great to a majority of people who cannot support these evil individuals, the Supreme Court decided that by taking away someones privilege of using social media, it was inevitably taking away their right of free speech. The Court also went on to doing away with this law in North Carolina. This court case was Packingham vs. North Carolina (http://www.newseuminstitute.org/first-amendment-center/supreme-court-cases/) 2(b): In Missouri a church was deemed ineligible for receiving public funding because it was a place of religious worship. The Supreme Court said that this imposed on the churches first amendment rights because this church qualified for some funding and even though it was a house of worship, the first amendment allows them to practice religion freely without any government intervention. This also led them to say that they were eligible for funding and should have received it.

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