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Lesson 8: 4.8 First Amendment: Assembly and Petition- Text of the First Amendment: Assembly and Petition Clauses
- Interactive Constitution Essay: The Assembly and Petition Clauses
- What is the First Amendment right to assembly?
- Info Brief: Assembly
- What are the limits to the right to assemble?
- Info Brief: Petition
- Why did the Founding generation think that we needed the Petition Clause?
- What role did petitioning play in early America?
- What role did petitioning play in the fight for women’s rights and the abolition of slavery?
- Primary Source: Prince Hall, Petition to the Massachusetts Legislature (1777)
- How is the petition right used today?
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Text of the First Amendment: Assembly and Petition Clauses
Google ClassroomRead the First Amendment's Assembly and Petition Clauses.
Congress shall make no law . . . abridging . . . or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.