First Amendment

magnificent list of liberties which were, at the time ascribed, to most

people belonging to the United States. The main author, James Madison,

transported the previous ideas of f undamental liberties from the great

libertarians around the world, such as John Lilburne, John Locke, William

Walwyn and John Milton. Madison and other previous libertarians of his time

were transposed into seventeen different rights which were to be secured to

all those in the United States. These seventeen civil liberties were

compressed into ten different groupings which were designated as the "Bill

of Rights." In this document lay the First Amendment which stated that the

people of the Uni ted States had the "freedom of speech, or of the press;

or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the

Government..." The First Amendment was drafted by federalist Madison mainly

as a political tactic to abolish anti-federalist resistance to the

Constitution. After its passage in December of 1791, the First Amendment

remained more idealistic than realistic. The First Amendment remained a

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