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Censorship

Date Submitted: 02/17/2003 05:45:30
Category: / Arts & Humanities / Music
Length: 3 pages (844 words)
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                 The first amendment to the Constitution contends that 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of the press.' In the past ten years especially, music has been under assault by law makers, prosecutors and critics of morality and taste. One attack on this freedom comes from parental advisory stickers. These stickers are used as a form of censorship against an artist …

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…ask if it is constitutionally moral, and then we may begin to change the warning system, so that our guaranteed freedoms do not die. Personally, I feel that any type of censorship is wrong. However, it does not mean that in does not serve its some purpose in cases. That is up to the individual in hand. 1 - George Beahm, War of Words the Censorship Debate. (Kansas City: Andrews and Mcmeel, 1993) 79. 2 - (Beahm 275) 3 - (Beahm 79)

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