Why is the first amendment important essay
Why Is The First Amendment Important?
I feel that Americans are very fond of
the freedom of speech and there's a lot
of complaining that happens about the
government there's a lot of frustration
about the toxic political atmosphere and
what the government is or isn't doing
but there's not enough action there's
not enough active citizens out there who
are who are exercising their other First
Amendment rights to petition the
government to contact their
representatives to assemble and to
gather support for the changes that they
they want to see made and I think that
it's important that we learn to use all
of our of our First Amendment rights and
not just hoist our frustrations but
actually put those into action the
things that the laws that are made the
regulations are created they do affect
our everyday life and if we can see that
then we can have more motivation and we
can see the steps then with which to
change those things that are affecting
us you know we went through in this trip
those tools that we have then to change
something and it was there's a thing
raps you guys know me say what they are
it's religion assembly press petition
speech and speech and we have to use all
five I guess I think that's part of it
another thing would be like educational
we learned up recently that a lot of
people aren't taught in schools about
their constitutional rights and how they
can work the government system as a
citizen and so improving the civic
education in schools would be really
important so that when people come
against a roadblock like that as an
adult when they have a idea of where to
start and where to go from well say I
had a store or grocery store and I love
selling fruits and vegetables and the
government said that I could only sell
me it's not free too much as well
I'd be upset about that so I would use
my the First Amendment and gather some
people who would be willing to help me
start a petition and go to my represent
representatives and just help help me
sell my fruits and vegetables it's using
the Internet out there as well as like
writing letters to newspapers and many
of our newspapers are digital down so
they are on the Internet and creating
maybe a digital type of petition and
then going forward with that to our
representatives that have them support
us so we're using the petition piece and
our wraps and also just making sure that
people understand what their rights are
using the Internet has pros and cons to
it but when we're using it for good so
to speak it makes it so that they can
get the information that they need so
they know who they have to go visit do
they have to see and what kind of things
they need to have signed yeah I mean we
have our country was built for a civic
responsibility for us to take this thing
by the reins and we have school board
meetings and we have so many local
things that we don't necessarily involve
ourselves in very often and yet those
are the things that can be so powerful
in our own lives and then like you said
so there's something we feel strongly
about we can write to our paper we can
go speak places and have
have that paper pick up articles about
us speaking we can gather petitions on
our social media we can put all of those
pieces together into one place and then
present that to policymaking foundations
like we learned about today I'm here in
Texas and we could say look this is
something a lot of people feel strongly
about can you help can you do the
research can you do some of the legwork
we're here to do it too but can you
bring it to our representative and we
can reach our representative we can go
writes our office knock on the door and
they'll meet with us
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