1.) The First Amendment is considered to be quite “famous,” it is not only the very first of it’s kind to be made for the Bill of Rights, but it also withholds a fundamental liberty that is important to the country’s citizens. It served the purpose of ensuring that there would be protection for religious freedom and right to express your perspective in public. Considering that it instilled various things, it was broken into two parts for better comprehension. One of those parts is called “Establishment clause,” where Congress is prohibited from creating or promoting their own religion, or a “state-sponsored religion.” Thus, the “Lemon Test” was established by the Supreme Court, it was made from the case known as Lemon v. Kurtzman. This would be used for deciding whether or not a law or a government action that could possibly develop a particular religious practice should be allowed to stay. The Lemon Test evaluates a law or action by using three components and if it were to pass all three, it would be considered as constitutional and remain in effect.

2.) The action of burning the U.S. flag as “freedom of expression” became a controversial debate amongst many citizens. A country’s flag is supposed to serve as a symbol of unification and its sole identity. Gregory Lee Johnson was a man who participated in such an act because he was part of a protest. Many citizens would burn the flag for many reasons, one in particular was to share the distaste for the government’s policies. Despite being arrested and charged with “desecration of a venerated object” for the burning of the flag, it was deemed as unconstitutional. For example, according to the “MILESTONE” segment, paragraph 2 states, “However, in 1989, the Supreme Court decided in Texas v. Johnson that burning the flag was a form of symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment and found the law, as applied to flag desecration, to be unconstitutional.” This quote from the text shares how the First Amendment protected Johnson’s action of burning the U.S. flag. There were many efforts made by Congress in an effort to solidify this action as unconstitutional but it never became a reality because it went against what the First Amendment stood for. Johnson was released and not charged for the “crime” that he was accused of.

3.) When someone says “I’m taking the Fifth,” this is referring to the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self-incrimination or the right to remain silent. An individual has the right to not give any evidence within court or to a law enforcement official so that they are not deemed as guilty or responsible for the accused crime.