Talk:First Amendment
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Given that amendments are common to documents of all sorts, we may want to keep article titles to things like "US Constitution: First Amendment" or "First Amendment to the US Constitution." Bill of Rights had to be split up, similarly, I notice. -- April
Moved from article: Should this be an article like this, or just a redirect?
- I believe there's justification for a separate article, despite my quibble over the title. It's been very important throughout US politics, and touches on any number of other issues. A discussion of those issues, along with some famous First Amendment court cases, certainly deserves an article, I think. Not that you'd want a separate article for every Amendment to the US Constitution, but this one is cited so very often that perhaps it deserves detailed discussion. -- April
I'm glad you agree on the need for the article. Every parent is pleased when their offspring is praised.
My admiration for the First Amendment comes from its usefulness for promoting goodness. It forbids the government from censoring good ideas. They can't stop me from expressing an idea, just because they disagree with it; if they could, there's a great risk that some unscrupulous people would promote evil ideas in the name of the government and force everyone to agree with them, or keep quiet. This has happened, in countries where some of my friends came from.
Ironically, the same law that prevents the censorship of good ideas also permits the expression of evil ideas. But that's okay, because as long as the good ideas get a fair chance to circulate, they will inevitably win out over the evil ideas. I'm quite confident of that. -- User:Ed Poor
We also have First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Shouldn't we merge this one with that one, and redirect this thataway? -- IHCOYC 00:21 12 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- Yes, done. Evercat 11:13, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)
