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What is the primary purpose of the First Amendment to the Constitution?

A) to guarantee basic civil liberties
B) to guarantee rights to accused persons
C) to prevent discrimination based on race
D) to protect citizens from taxation without representation

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Answer:

The correct answer is A, to guarantee basic civil liberties.

Explanation:

The First Amendment to the Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights (1791).

The Bill was produced to help convince Anti-Federalists to ratify the Constitution.

Anti-Federalists worried that with a Constitution the federal government would become too powerful and attack the states' rights. This political group believed that the states were the real maintainers of freedom, not the central government.

Thus the Bill of Rights was made to guarantee the federal government would not become tyrannical and attack civil liberties.

Answer:

The Correct Answer is A

Explanation:

  • The First Amendment protects the Unites States of American Constitution that restricts the authority for enacting legislation which controls an institution of morality, prevent the independent performance of religion, or shortening the freedom of expression, the freedom of the media, the right to peaceably gather.

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