First Amendment In Schools Essay

The First Amendment assures freedom of faith. It also affects everyday life in many ways. The amendment has a ban on state authorized religion. In 2000, the Supreme Court presented public prayer in school as being illegal. When “Pregame Prayer” is visible at schools the establishment clause of the First Amendment is then violated. The First Amendment provides freedom in two different clauses. One states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”. Those clauses are the establishment clause and the free exercise clause. (Ginsberg et al. 99) There should not be limits on freedom of speech. The constitution states itself that we as people have the right to speak freely without the fear of prosecution. We should be able to speak up about wrongful and unfair things. I believe that government

I believe there should be limits on religious expressions in public schools because religion is such a touchy subject and in schools it can be difficult from my experience.

QUESTION 5 An affirmative action policy uses two different approaches, positive or kind discrimination in which race or some other position is considered as a positive rather than a negative aspect. The second approach being compensatory action to favor members of the deprived group who themselves may never have been the victims of discrimination. Affirmative action is controversial in the united states. Affirmative action was first spoken of by the Supreme Court in the case of Allan Bakke. Bakke argued that his grades and test scores had ranked him well above many students who had been accepted at the school and that the only likely clarification for his denial was that he was white, whereas those others accepted were black or Latino. Bakke won his case in 1978 before the supreme court and was admitted to the medical school, but he failed in getting affirmative action declared unconstitutional. (Ginsberg et al.