Relevance

Past

• James Madison, writer of the first amendment, he made the law so people could voice their opinion.
• He said that the bigger the country the less someone can voice their opinion.
• He thought that the more somebody could express themselves the happier they would be.
• This is why he fought for the right to speak.

Present

• Today freedom of speech is not only looked at by verbal speech, but "symbolic speech".
• An example of symbolic speech is flag burning. Flag burning is protected under the first amendment.
• Freedom of speech also protects donating money to a political campaign. Which many people engage in.
• But today there are also many things people don't look at as free speech.
• One being that students cannot say anything obscene at a school event.

Future

• In the future there will be many more people.
• The writer of the first amendment  made freedom of speech legal because he wanted to make sure people could voice their opinion.
• As the population goes up, so will the amount of people wanting to voice their opinions.
• For this reason freedom of speech will likely stay the same because people need to voice their opinion in order to feel like they help the country.