The Fisrt Amendment Analysis: Basic Freedom

The interpretation of the first amendment has been seen throughout our history and, it had either been incorporated in a manner of conservancy or alteration. The first amendment basically describes what congress was under limited power to and, our basic freedoms. However, the concern was never questioned if the state government can curb those liberties since during the ratification of the bill there was little concern of this even being true. This had proven to be reality later on with the various cases that questioned not only the first, but several other amendments. Freedom of speech for example shows a great amount of interpretation through various cases.

A case in 1976 for example, questioned prior restraint and this basically meant if an action can basically be restrained before the action had actually happened. The case of Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart (the 1976 case) was decided that they must follow prior restraint by mentioning, "A prior restraint on expression comes to this Court...the government thus carries a heavy burden of showing justification for the enforc...