Questions!!!!!

1. What is your right?
- Freedom of Speech

2. Why does your right exist?
-It is part of the first of the 14 amendments. It is meant so people can freely express information, ideas, opinion with out the government interfering. Freedom of speech can also be known as freedom of expression.

3. Describe what it means to exercise your right.
-To be able to speak your mind without fear of punishment from anyone such as the government.

4. What limitations exist on your right?
-Limitations on the freedom of speech is that it may follow the "harm principle" or the "offense principle." Limitations may also occur through legal sanction and/or social disapprobation. The internet gives new possibilities for exercising freedom of speech. Data havens and gripe sites allow free speech by guaranteeing that material cannot be removed (censored).

5. Why do those limitations exist?
-These exist because what people say may be harmful to those who its against. People can express themselves without punishment. This leaves people to say what ever they please and those who its against doesn't have the right to have them punished.

6. If you had to give up this right, what would you want in return?
-I would want freedom of thought. It may be closely related but with this right, people will have the right to there own opinion and thoughts.