Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Pop Quiz, hot shot!

Name the five guarantees provided by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

I know what you are thinking... "Whoa, since when do I take orders from Trevor's blog, or from any blog, for that matter?" But recently I have become a little concerned about rights erosion in the United States and it scares me that some people don't know what our rights are. Anyway, I thought rather than whining about it, I could at least do my part to remind everyone of their high school civics classes.

OK, without further ado, the text of the First Amendment:
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.
So, what are the five (maybe six, depending on how you count, but a group of five is easier to keep track of, so we will go with that):
  1. Freedom of religion
  2. Freedom of speech
  3. Freedom of the press
  4. Freedom to assemble
  5. Freedom to petition the government
Remember those five rights, they might come in handy some day.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Who can find the typo in Trevor's last post?

Trevor said...

OK, I got the typo that Jenny noticed fixed... but if you find any more, please, feel free to let me know :-)