After asking those close to me about their viewpoints, it was interesting to me that those who were male felt a stronger sense of pride in the freedoms outlined within it. I made sure to interview people who were in an older generation than I was, but I also asked someone from my generation to make sure I had variations in age group. The age group didn’t necessarily hold as much weight in the decision as the gender factor seemed to have.

My subjects are generally supportive of the first amendment. Those who held qualms felt that they supported the amendment, but they believed there should have been certain limitations on some of the freedoms offered by the amendment itself. This debate is quite prevalent in American politics today, so I thought it was interesting that some of them did not recall the amendment.

Out of the six individuals I was able to interview, only one of them was able to recognize that I was listing the freedoms of the first amendment. He was the youngest subject I interviewed, and he leans a little more to the right than everyone I interviewed, so it made sense to me that he had a stricter outlook on the US Constitution. His answers were important because he ceded that the amendment needed to be open to interpretation in certain situations, but he strongly supported American freedoms.

When viewing recent attitudes from surveys regarding the first amendment, I thought it was very interesting that some of the data supported what I collected, specifically in the support from white males for the amendment itself.

If you would like to dive deeper into the current national attitudes regarding the First Amendment, visit this site here : https://knightfoundation.org/reports/high-school-student-views-on-the-first-amendment:-trends-in-the-21st-century/