Amendment1Religion

Amendment 1: Freedom of Religion


 * //Congress shall make no law respecting and establishment of __RELIGION__ or prohibiting the free exercise thereof//**; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.


 * __Analysis__**

We the people should all have the right to believe in whatever and whoever we want no matter what, and the the first amendment gives us the right to worship. This amendment was established for the protection of someone else to never be able to tell you who to worship and what religion you will and/or will not believe in. You have the right to exercise the religion you believe in. This first amendment was established in 1791 by Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson once quoted "Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, torchered, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites." By this quote he meant innocent people have been torchered for being able to worship whom they chose. Is it right to hurt another human being or force one another to believe what you believe in,and to not give them a mind of their own? In my opinion, beyond any doubt, is not right. Freedom of Religion is important to our everyday lives.

__**McCollum v. Board of Education, 333 U.S. 203 (1948)**__

December 8th, 1948 the issue of this case was whether the Champaign Board of Education should allow religious intructors to replce their religious teaching for secular education for thirty minutes once a week disobeys the Establishment Clause of the first admendment. By an 8 to 1 vote, the court thought that the pratice of allowing outside religious teachers into the classrooms during school hours violates the Establishment Clause. Justice Hugo Black quoted, "To hold that a state cannot consistently with the First and Fourteenth Amendments utilize its public school system to aid any or all religious faiths or sects in the dissemination of their doctrines and ideals does not, as counsel urge, manifest a governmental hostility to religion or religious teachings."


 * __How does this amendment impact my real life?__**

Rockwell, Norman. "Each according to the dictates of yos own conscience." __Yoism.org__. Every single day people in America worship whomever they choose without any worries. Everyday people in the United States come home to their families and practice their religion with the right to. But don't forget, even people who don't believe in anything have the right to do so and they will not be forced to believe in anything. Everyone in America has the ability to have a mind of their own and they are free to believe in who they want. The first admendment is //very// important to those who care and it makes us who we are today. Freedom of Religion is freedom for a better protected life!

By: Asia, Ealliyah, and Jalil


 * __Resorces

Pictures__** http://www.yoism.org/images/FreedomOfReligionL.JPG Rockwell, Norman. "Each according to the dictates of yos own conscience." __Yoism.org__. . http://www.odu.edu/vhosts/orgs/bsu/odu_files/worship_hands.jpg http://www.boisestate.edu/socwork/dhuff/history/c-image/schkids.JPG

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/faclibrary/case.aspx?case=McCollum_v_Education
 * __Information__**
 * Nowak, John E. & Rotunda, Ronald D., PRINCIPLES OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (2ND ED., 2005), sect.17.5 ||
 * Witte, John, Jr., RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL EXPERIMENT (2000), pp. 166-167 ||

http://www.firstamendmentschools.org/freedoms/case.aspx?id=481 Creating America(textbook)pg. 250
 * Nowak, John E. & Rotunda, Ronald D., PRINCIPLES OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (2ND ED., 2005), sect.17.5 ||
 * Witte, John, Jr., RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL EXPERIMENT (2000), pp. 166-167 ||