First Amendment Rights

Why have only 27 amendments been added to the Constitution in the past 200 years?

• The process of adding amendments is very complex
• The courts strike down many amendments
• National laws limit the number of amendments
• Changes in society are too small to require amendments

Freedom of Speech is unlimited

• True

• False

What freedom gives you the right to say anything you want just long as you are not  threatening safety of anyone?

• Press
• Petition
• Assembly
• Speech

A student refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance because of the phrase "under God"  is an example  of what freedom?

• press
• speech
• religion
• assembly

Whenever the U.S. military goes to war (Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.) there are many citizens who gather in Washington, D.C. to protest sending the army to fight in foreign lands.  Which first amendment freedom protects their right to gather peacefully?

• Speech
• Assembly
• Petition
• Press

The right to hold meetings and form groups without interference by the government.

• freedom of press

• freedom to petition the government

• freedom of peaceful assembly

• freedom of religious exercise

What two amendments rights does the image exercise? Click on the 2 freedoms that identify the rights being performed in the image

• Freedom of Speech

• Freedom of Religion

• Freedom of Assembly

• Freedom to Petition the Government

What limits are placed on the Freedom of Speech/Press?

• can't slander (lie) about a person

• Can't encourage riots or criminal acts

• Can't threaten anyone with violence

• All of the above

True or False: If you make a petition to the government with 1 million signatures, the government has to respond to it.

• TRUE

• FALSE

To gather as a group

• Assembly

• Petition

• Libel

• Slander