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To: Tublecane; Kaslin
I've been asking folks this simple question:

What are the 5 freedoms guaranteed by the 1st Amendment.

I've been asking this for over 6 months. I have yet to find one person who can correctly answer it.

The Republic is DONE.

10 posted on 09/15/2011 9:34:21 AM PDT by appalachian_dweller (Live each day as if it's your last. It might be.)
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To: appalachian_dweller
What are the 5 freedoms guaranteed by the 1st Amendment.

Freedom of Speech. Freedom of the press. Freedom of peaceable assembly. Freedom from the establishment of a religion. Freedom to practice one's religion. Freedom to petition the government for redress of grievances.

That's six, not five, and I'm right.

Your question is posed wrongly.

Try reading the Constitution some time.

22 posted on 09/15/2011 10:12:00 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: appalachian_dweller
BTW, here's 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.

If you want to be pedantic, it protects three freedoms and two rights, and imposes a restriction upon the government.

24 posted on 09/15/2011 10:16:24 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: appalachian_dweller

“What are the 5 freedoms guaranteed by the 1st Amendment”

I sometimes forget the “petition the Government for a redress of grievances” clause, partly because I don’t fully understand it. I mean, I know why that’s an important mechanism. What I don’t understand is why it’s necessary to specify it. As long as we have freedom of speech and assembly they can’t stop us from petitioning them, right? And the Constitution doesn’t say the government has to listen to petitions, or anything. So what is it this right is supposed to accomplish, exactly? To outlaw the post office from burning petititions? To prevent armed guards from not letting petitions past the capital lobby?


47 posted on 09/15/2011 11:42:32 AM PDT by Tublecane
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