The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects fundamental freedoms. It prohibits the government from establishing a religion or interfering with the free exercise of religion. It also guarantees the freedoms of speech, the press, the right to peaceably assemble, and the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances Gettysburg Address Delivered at Gettysburg, Pa. Nov. 19th 1863. “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. “But in a larger sense we cannot dedicat...
