The Amendment Of The Bill Of Right Freedom Of Religion...

Civil liberties are individual freedoms which are protected from the government by the Bill of Rights. There were historical backgrounds to guarantee the freedom. Although they are ruled in the Constitution, it is not easy to protect the diversity and individual freedom in the society, and not all conflicts have been settled today. Yet, people are in a process to improve democratic society which is not a finished product, and freedom in all its forms improves itself over time. I am going to explain two major liberties in the First Amendment of the Bill of Right: the freedom of religion and the freedom of the press. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution starts with â€Å"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment†¦show more content†¦Thus, they moved to the new world where they hoped that they could obtain the freedom of worship. However, colonies where administered by the British government, especially in North America, established the British churches, and persecution to others was not ceased. They had to follow the teachings and pay taxes for a religious church that they did not believe; therefore, they started protesting (The Roots of Religious Liberty). The Virginia constitution stated every person has equality in the free exercise of religion, but it did not include a full separation of church and state on 1776. For the separation, there were two important people: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Jefferson made out a draft of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom which enacted the separation of government and religion for the first in the United States. After that, Madison wrote the Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessment which criticized religious taxation because it would damage the freedom of religion when any religion was subject to the government. Voters were moved by Madison’s emphatic argument and elect a state legislature who opposed the establishment of a single church and the t axation for churches. At the following session, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom was approved in the Virginia legislature. This movement spread other states, and finally, Madison applied the freedom of religion into the ten amendments known as the Bill of Rights in