" The First Amendment has endured 200 years, without significant modification and contradiction. The amendment clearly states no law established in the United States is to force an individual to subject to one king, one law, or one faith. James Madison was the prime drafter of the First Amendment and he clearly defines his points. He relates it into the five freedoms: speech, press, religion, assembly and petition. Our founders of the amendment wanted every state to have the right to express the five freedoms.
James Madison version of speech and press was introduced to representatives on June 8, 1789. "The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write or to publish their sentiments and the freedom of press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable." In this historic time, the freedom of speech and press was important for the newspapers. This third party would be able to keep the government in line with the U.S. Constitution. The independence of the press is without a doubt essential to the nature of a U.S. Constitution. The First Amendment prevents the government from implementing what the press should report. This has removed the laws once practice in England and France. .
Government shall not institute one religion or implement legal observation of it by law on citizen of the United States. What did the framer mean by religion? This refers to Christian denomination and not a simple act of commitment to God. We observe James used the word "religion" referring to a Christian denomination. The first amendment does not divide Church from State. It defines the method, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert, coming together, or dependency on the other. United States will not pass a law to implement one religion. We provide the individual right to chose our religion and not be prosecuted as.
in the extraordinary time of French laws.
