尼尔·盖曼曾经说过:“目前世界上有第一修正案的国家总数是一个。你已经保证了言论自由。其他国家没有。”在制定这些修正案时,绝大多数开展业务的国家还没有给予其人民这种自由。赋予每个美国公民这项权利似乎是这个国家历史上的一个重要里程碑。与其他权利一样,这项权利在宪法第一修正案中向人民宣布。第一修正案是最重要的,因为它允许人们言论自由,禁止事先限制,并宣布了和平集会的权利。第一修正案是最重要的,因为它赋予人民言论自由。这种自由对于表达自己对政府所做决定的看法至关重要。这一权利被剥夺的一个例子是朝鲜目前的状况。 Their citizens do not in any way have freedom of speech, and because of that they cannot criticize their government in order to improve it. Their government is very controlling and insufficient due to the people’s lack of rights. This example helps to enhance the importance of freedom of speech in the first amendment, because without it in a country the government cannot be criticized upon their behalf. Secondly, the first amendment is the most important because it prohibits prior restraint. Prior restraint is a government censorship of information before it is published or broadcasted. This gives the government major control over what can be said in the media. For example, if information had been leaked about a political leader’s wrong doing, the government would censor it from news stories and other publications. In this country, the government is not allowed to do this simply because censoring the media is keeping information a secret, and is not sharing the truth with the people on
参考书目:Bookrags Media Network。“修正案报价。”BrainyQuote。BrainyQuote, 2001年。2012年10月15日。< http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/amendments.html >。