Amending an Amendment Blog # 3

Brad's Weekly Post:

Today in class the conversation really hit home for me. We talked about the freedom's we as Americans have. I always knew my first Amendment rights, weather being arrested or just going for a walk down Deerfield road, I have the freedom of speech. With this freedom comes a lot of controversy. The fact that people can say whatever whenever leads to some enormous problems. Take the example of targeting a specific race or ethnicity, in a public environment like a school; let’s say a student wares a shirt that promotes taking black people out of the school system. The student can argue that it’s his first amendment right. Here is where the amendment gets amended, even though it’s a public environment every day we are deprived of constitutional rights. This made no sense to most people but I came up with a solution called the time and place theory. This theory promotes good judgment, using your full freedom should only be done in the correct venue. For example going into an abortion clinic and protesting how women should keep their children. That is the wrong time and place. This is not a complex theory rather simple, just requiring good judgment. I think the first amendment was created so that people could express their feelings about government freely, not to hurt people and to provoke racial battles and violence.  This is "the land of the free” (national anthem) so let’s not abuse that privilege.