The Bill of
Rights states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or profiting 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." This is quite
possibly the amendment that makes the United States the democratic and orderly
country it is.
The choice and
freedom to say and listen to whatever one wants is the ultimate independence.
This means the United States allows the most freedom, therefore making it the
best country in the world.
As I am growing and maturing in my life, I find
it essential that I have the liberty to say and hear whatever I want to hear.
Recently I have been doing research on different religions and theories, and
without the freedom of speech, many of the enlightening ideas that I have
received could have passed me by, restricting my learning and intellectual
expansion.
Try as we, the people and lawmakers might, it
is impossible to restrict a person from doing whatever is their desire and in
their grasp. Any person, at any time, can say anything they want to. And for
good reason. We are a democracy where the people make the rules, and the people
own the country. The place that the government should step in is when it
endangers, damages, or insults another human being.
When the leaders of our country wrote the
constitution of the United States, they knew that their rules would have to be
broken sometime in the future. What they didn't think would happen, is that the
rules would be broken barely more than two hundred years after they were
written. The freedom of speech is a rule that must not be broken now or ever.
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