What is your favorite freedom in the bill of rights?
Posted on January 7th, 2010 by admin
What is your favorite freedom in the bill of rights and why? please explain.
Well the reason im asking is because its for school, so yeah guess their asking if you want yer heart or lungs removed..
Freedom of speech. We can criticize the government, suggest changes, without fear of reprisal by the government. It’s a vitally important right.
Dana (attorney)
January 7th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Freedom of speech. We can criticize the government, suggest changes, without fear of reprisal by the government. It’s a vitally important right.
Dana (attorney)
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January 7th, 2010 at 7:34 pm
the right to free speech and the ability to protest. However, the current administration is doing its best to limit the average American from speaking against big business and corporate interests.
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animal rights activist
January 7th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
The Bill of Rights is not like American Idol. It is a single integrated whole that defines our entire Republic and distinguishes it from every other tyranny that came before it.
The question is kind of like asking whether you would rather have your: heart or lungs removed?
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January 7th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
The Democrats will try to take as many of them away as they can, especially Freedom of Speech and the right of self-protection. Don’t vote for them, whatever you do.
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January 7th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
7th Amendment, right to a jury trial for dispute greater than $20 in federal civil court, as preserved in 1786. Can’t beat that one.
Seriously. My favorite is the 14th Amendment’s due process clause, because it makes applicable to the states what was firth thought to apply to the Federal Government. It doesn’t incorporate all the Bill of rights, but most of it. It isn’t technically thought of as one of the Bill of Rights, but it essential. Before the 14th Amendment, the State government could search your house without a valid warrent. It could try you twice for the same crime, and it could make you testify against yourself. So, many of the rights we think of as comming from the Bill of Rights, really come from the 14th Amendment.
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