Our_First_Freedoms

Our First Freedoms Seldom, if ever, have rights been given to marginalized groups in a democratic society without some time of persuasion, in which each minority group voices or acts out their dissenting opinions and reasons for them in an attempt to affect the majority’s ruling opinion. The ability of citizens to assemble to discuss their convictions and the freedom of the press to publish and distribute these opinions was built into the U.S. Constitution by amendment, in 1791, because the founders recognized that these rights are interconnected with citizens’ ability to regulate their government through open criticism and also create change in the government which represents and rules them. This recognition was due partly from their own experiences in gaining independence from England, in which discussions of emancipation were circulated among the colonists, through newspapers and through public meetings, before rebellion was taken on. The Constitution was ratified, in its original form, without these rights explicitly given (though some of its writers felt they were implicitly given), however, early Americans such as Mercy Otis Warren and Thomas Jefferson argued successfully for their inclusion. In “Observations of The New Constitution”, in which Warren criticized the yet-to-be ratified Constitution, rights, constitution, opinions, government, free, through, first, without, right, press, people, new, freedom, ability, society, influence, each, amendment, warren, time, speech, representative, recognized, public, own, others, one, madison, laws, later, jefferson, greater, given, expression, early