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The freedom of speech has also come under attack, most recently when a reporter was jailed for refusing to expose her sources. The amendment mentions "free exercise" of the right to say what one wishes or print what one wishes; however, if a person was to publicly endorse the assassination of the President, that person would be quickly arrested and most likely thrown in jail, an act that stands in deep conflict with the idea of "free exercise."

The Second Amendment has also become the center of attention regarding a person's right to own firearms and issues related to gun control. The National Rifle Association (NRA) highly endorses the 2nd Amendment and goes to great lengths to lobby Congress for less restrictive measures related to owning specific kinds of firearms, such as machine guns, AK-47's and other high-powered weapons.
With handguns, a good number of legal efforts in recent years have attempted to place some kind of control on handgun purchases and possession, yet most of these measures have failed miserably, due to the 2nd Amendment's specification that the right to keep and bears arms cannot be "infringed" or curtailed.

The future prospects of the 1st and 2nd Amendments will undoubtedly remain as they are into the near future, yet it is clear that both of these amendments, due to continuing debates over their appropriateness in American society, will face more controversy and disagreements among those that support the amendments and those that would like to see some changes made in the way they are expressed in the….....

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