The founders of the United States government tried to protect our liberty by assuring a free press, to gather and publish information without being under control or power of another, in the First Amendment to the Constitution. ... These groups, religious or otherwise, believe that publishing unorthodox material is an abuse of free expression under the First Amendment. ... Others are members of boards or committees, organized to review books, films, or other forms of communication on behalf of a community. ... Through this survey it was found that American rate free speech as their second most ...

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Constitution (source #2), it clearly states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." ... Study shows that majority of 53% believe that viewing portrayals of violence in television, books, films and newspaper stories makes people more likely "to do something violent." ... By breaking the rule, it may become a habit for Americans and we would no longer become a...

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As a result, people may feel less free to speak their mind or participate in activities of which the government may not approve. ... They may suspect people are "terrorists," because of the books they have purchased or the organizations with which they are associated. ... For instance, the FBI can receive information that reveals which books an individual has borrowed or purchased. ... This means that the government is free to torture and interrogate the individual (ACLU). ...

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Is the acceptance of pornography in our society a question of free speech and expression? ... Until this moment, the constitutional doctrine of free speech has developed without taking equality seriously - either the problem of social inequality or the mandate of substantive legal equality." (MacKinnon 71) On the other hand, there is the opinion held by many that "If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own home, what books he may read, or what films he may watch." ... Free speech and expression is an essential part of Am...

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Inmates have the right to be free, under the Eighth Amendment, from inhuman conditions because those conditions constitute "cruel and unusual" punishment. ... Inmates have the right to be free from sexual crimes, including sexual harassment. ... Inmates have the right to be free from racial segregation in prisons, except where necessary for preserving discipline and prison security. ... Inmates are entitled, under the Due Process Clause of the Constitution, to be free from unauthorized and intentional deprivation of their personal property by prison officials. ...

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When I compare my own country to the U.S, I do not have to have read books or taken lessons to know that America is a highly religious country, and has been since its earliest days. ... The very language of the Constitution and Bill of Rights suggest that, though created with Christian morals in the back of their minds, the framers of the Constitution intended America to be a nation free from any one religious authority. ... However, to say that the colonies were free from religious persecution is far from truth. ... The very idea of the free exercise of religion was at stake "if civil rul...

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After seven years of labor the servants were free to start a new life. ... The indentured free servants ran into the Native Americans where they confront numerous amounts of conflicts. ... Most of these laws were already on the books for consideration well before Bacon was elected to the Burgesses. ...

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Libertarianism is the political philosophy rooted in the belief that people should be allowed to live their lives as they see fit, free from government coercion and regulation--so long as they do not infringe upon the rights of others. ... Furthermore, any interference in free commerce and laissez-faire economics by government would prove to be harmful. ...

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Aristotle wrote on this discussion of the Ideal State in books VII and VIII of The Politics. ... The Ideal State should be a size such as the citizens can live a life of a free man where he is adequately provided for, but not a life where he lives through a vice of extravagance. ...

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