The following values of free expression, are what provides are governmental habitat to be stable. In which has been abused over the past years. These different values of free expression allow for the government to not have too much power, which is the most important thing. While all of these values hold their importance, some of them hold more of a higher standing then others.
Individual self fulfillment is the part of freedom of speech that allows individuals to express themselves and thereby create their own identity, which then allows for an aspect of human dignity, agency and autonomy too form. This is very important to human rights because it allows for people too be who they are, and express their uniqueness as individuals. This also keeps us more united and less divided because it causes a better understanding of what you belief, and once you do that you can better understand others. It also makes people less likely to rebel against the system because people feel safe and can be who ever they want to be. A true leader knows that placing fear into others doesn't work because that leads to no trust, no understanding, which then leads to a rebellion. A big part of this process values helping others, someone who better understands themselves learns to help others better understand who they are as a person. Once this happens a more joyful and peaceful society is created. For example a quote from the article Can Helping Others Help You Find Meaning in Life?"Although happiness and meaning overlap significantly, researchers suspected that helping others is especially crucial to developing a sense of meaning (Hopper)." Us as individual's have one goal in this life and that is to find our purpose and meaning. The constitutional right that allows us to find this meaning is self fulfillment, this is the most important value of self expression because it keeps the peace between ourselves and others. This is elaborated in the news source Can Helping Others Help You Find Meaning in Life? found on google news.
The next most important value of expression is check on government power. This value of expression holds a strong power and meaning because it illustrates freedom of the press which then enables citizens to learn about the abuses of power. Having a country that understands the difference between holding power and abusing power allows for a stronger society to be maintained. This is because learning and knowing your rights is super important, that way if the government which they do starts to uphold too much power it can be turned around by the citizens in our society. For example the internet has held am abuse of power for years, we enter in information to the accounts we create without further understanding the power it holds. The government also abuses this power by not teaching citizens what the internet really provides and what they do behind the scenes, and this needs too change. In the article Your Data Is Diminishing Your Freedom "We’re simultaneously loading more and more of our lives into these systems and feeling that we have little to no control or understanding of how these systems work (Marchese)." Without knowing how these systems work we open ourselves up to a dangerous world that should not be the one we live in. The government with holds information too by keeping information out of the news and this is a further extent into an abuse of power. If us as citizens can further understand are rights we can stand up and change this.
This abuse of power goes further once we start to talk about prior restraint. This goes more into the government and the media because prior restraint is when the government stops you from speaking or writing before you have even done so. The government has been doing this since technology has escalated. The reason for this is because when there is more information provided about people it can be easier to take abuse over. Since we live in a world where everyone knows everything about everyone, it can be used for either good or evil. The government has been using it for evil because they have not been respecting our rights while doing so. Learning to control and restore the power into more the peoples hands then the government is the truth behind how the country should be run. While technology makes this hard too do it is still possible, learning how to control the internet has to be the first step. Because the government restricting and giving out too much information causes an unbalanced society. For example in the article Supreme Court Should Address Prior Restraints on Former Gov’t Employees Employees "Finally, the regimes also lack the procedural safeguards required to mitigate the risk of illegitimate censorship—including perhaps most critically any firm timeline for government review (Kaufman, Jaffer)." This quote emphasizes the fact that government restrictions have been increasing through time which is highly illegal due to the value of expression written in the constitution.
Promote innovation is a community in which free speech is encouraged and a must, because it is valued. With it being protected it leads to a more energized, creative, and interesting society as its citizens actively fulfill themselves by being there true authentic selves. When citizens are encouraged to show their creative side, we discover and learn more about ourselves and others around us. In a society where we can see everyones perspective and view we have less a chance of the people in society being dissatisfied with how its run. For example in the article The Emerging Field of Political Innovation "To understand how political innovation works and how it creates impact, we find it useful to elaborate on the democracy work and the impact pathways characteristic of political innovation (Mair, Kindt, Mena)." This plays a role in promote innovation because when we open our minds too new ideas and use our energy to see people for who we are we have a more stable society as a whole.
All of these concepts that are the first amendment written in the constitution, are expression of value needed to maintain a stable environment. Without these amendments the country becomes unstable and becomes a monarchy. To maintain a democratic view we have to maintain all the rights provided in the constitution and learn and understand our rights too.
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