The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise--the carrying into practice of religious principles, and beliefs, and convictions.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The First Amendment protects the practice of beliefs, not just the thoughts themselves.
- In plain terms
- The First Amendment is about practicing beliefs, not just thinking them.
- What can you take from it?
- Understand free exercise protects action based on belief.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you practice your beliefs?
- What does free exercise mean to you?
Another view
Freedom of thought and belief are also protected constitutional rights.
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