Pop quiz: Who knows what the first amendment actually means?

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WhigParty

New member
Get 'em all right and win best answer:

1) does the 1st amendment says there's a separation of church and state?
2) Does the 1st amendment promise freedom of religion?
3) Does the 1st amendment promise the right to petition the government?
4) Does the 1st amendment promise free speech?
5) Illinois wants to make Catholicism it's official state religion. Does the 1st amendment prevent this?
6) There is no 6
7) Massachusetts wants to prevent a newspaper from running a story. The newspaper claims that the 1st amendment protects them and allows them to print the story. Are they correct?

Get it right, get a cookie.
I mean 10 points
 
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daniel

Active member
none it means that the democrats get sepream dictatorship over the country, and get to ruin our freedom, quote thomas jefferson
 
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TheBigCheese

Member
Simple Answer.

"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" - First Amendment.

1- The 1st Amendment does not LITERALLY say "separation of church and state", but it is a concept that is very much implied. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." Need I say more? This is designed to protect the church from the state, AND the state from the church. Part of the reason our founding fathers rebelled against England was because they wanted to escape the tyranny that resulted from the church and state becoming synonymous. And don't you DARE call me a liberal/progressive for saying this.

2 - Yes

3- Obviously

4- Yes

5- Not entirely sure. I would say no because Congress has no jurisdiction over Illinois, states' rights, but then again the Bill of Rights is applied to the states via 10th Amendment.

6 - Very well then

7 - Yes they are correct.
 
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