The Constitution of theUnited States

and the

Bill of Rights

Five Freedoms

S p e e ch P re ss A sse m b ly P e tit ion R e lig io n

A m e nd m e nt O N E

Speech

• What is free speech?

• Can you have too much freedom?

• Give examples

Dream.ram

Press

• News• Letters• Personal• Email• Are there any

limitations to what we can put into print?

Assembly

• IRA marching in Catholic neighborhoods?

• KKK Marching in Chicago

• Homecoming parade

Petition

• Referred measure

• Initiated measure

• No national petition (by state only)

• Redress by undress?

Religion

• Establishment clause• Freedom of . . .• “separation of church

and state”• Jefferson’s letters to

the Danbury Baptists

REVIEW

• Writing to the school editor

• Student lead prayer• Gathering signatures

to change policy• Homecoming parade• Marilyn Manson• March to White Clay

• Carrying a Bible• Student body

presidents campaign speeches

• Email• Protesting US military

involvement

For tomorrow

2nd Amendment

What is it?

Right to Bear Arms

• For the preservation of a free state

• To maintain a militia• Where were the guns

kept• When did it become

necessary to keep them in your home?

Credits – Work cited

• Martin Luther King picture – American Government; Holt, Rinehart, & Winston p.351

• New York Times picture – ibid.