The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights and protects American civil liberties. The amendment prohibits the making of any law pertaining to an establishment of a federal or state religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble, or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.
Lastly, the First Amendment was one of the first guarantees of religious freedom: neither the English Bill of Rights nor the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen contain a similar guarantee.
Questionable Role of NATO in the Post-Cold-War Era. ... NATO was then conceived as a potent military means of common defense of the Western Allies. To counteract NATO's military might the USSR created the Warsaw Pact in 1955, at the time when the Western Germany was made a NATO member
