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The US Constitution The most important laws of the United States of America is the Constitution. The US Constitution explains what the government -- presidents, lawmakers and judges -- can do. The patriots who wrote the Constitution a long time ago were worried that some day, presidents, lawmakers and judges might get too big for their britches and start making rules that the Constitution doesn't say they are allowed to make. So the patriots added amendments to the Constitution to explain what rights citizens have, and what government can NOT do. The first ten amendments that were added are called the Bill of Rights.

One of the most important amendments to US citizens is the First Amendment. Here's how it reads:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

That's a lot of words, but here's what it means in a nutshell:

  1. Government cannot control religion and religion cannot control government.
  2. Government cannot limit how people speak their minds or express themselves.
  3. Government cannot limit newspapers, magazines or television, radio news programs, and even Internet publishers from publishing any news they think their readers ought to read or hear.
  4. If citizens want to get together for whatever reason -- even in the streets to protest -- government can not stop them unless the citizens become violent.
  5. Government has to allow citizens a way to complain to government about government.

The US flag is worthy of respect (in other words, it is sacred) when:

  1. it represents the United States that is governed by the Constitution;
  2. when the US treats citizens fairly; and
  3. when the president, lawmakers and judges haven't gotten too big for their britches.

But what if the government decides to ignore the Constitution and Bill of Rights, starts treating citizens like they answer to government officials (rather than government officials answering to them), and takes civil rights away from citizens? Go to PAGE 4 to find out.

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