Student Response

Intellectual Freedom

Intellectual Freedom was the first amendment and is a law giving American citizens the right to read what we want to read, hear what we want to hear, watch what we want to watch, and think what we want to think. This is a very important law because we have the right to know what is going on and to be well informed with our time, and country and everything around us. People have all these ideas, for books, and websites, or television shows and many other things and without this freedom all these thoughts would go to waste. We have this because people want to and should share their ideas with who will and is allowed to listen to them.

I completely agree with this idea because not only does it give us the freedom to read, write, watch, hear and think what we want but also with this law we get the freedom to have our own opinions on these things. Other countries are told what they cannot read or see or hear and think. How can they form their own opinions with these laws? They can't. If they are taught these things, basically from birth, they will grow up thinking like everyone around them, and even if they don't think the same what can they do about it? Nothing! I like these freedoms and they may not seem like much to us because we have known them and grown up with these freedoms, but this is a very good law for our country, compared to the laws about freedoms in other countries.