First and Fourth Amendment

First and Fourth Amendment Considerations

First Amendment

The First Amendment, as applied theory and a legal concept, has a timeline that parallels the development of early American social networks dedicated to political and social causes. The 1789 Constitution and its Bill of Rights were ratified by the states in an era when the first political actors in the United States, the Federalists and Republicans, were the catalysts for numerous political debates, including the Federalist Papers and Anti-Federalist Papers. The First Amendment discusses five liberties: religion, press, speech, assembly, and petitioning government. As noted by Nat Hentoff, these were important ...