| Philip D. Brick, R. McGreggor Cawley - 1996 - 340 pages
...Redress of Grievances. 40 The First Amendment of the Constitution states, "The Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people to petition the government for a redress of grievances." 41 This provision guarantees to citizens the right to petition the government without... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Ethics - 1996 - 584 pages
...1 . , it noted that, the first Article in our Bill of Rights provides that "Congress shall make no law. . . abridging the... right of the people... to petition the government for a redress of grievances." The exercise of this Right involves not only petition by groups of citizens with common... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs - 1996 - 106 pages
...Court discussed the right to petition generally in McDonald v. Smith,1: The First Amendment guarantees "the right of the people ••. to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." The right to petition is cut from the same cloth as the other guarantees of that *... | |
| George William Pring, Penelope Canan - 1996 - 300 pages
...the political-constitutional issue: The First Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees "the right of the people ... to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Citizen access to the institutions of government constitutes one of the foundations... | |
| W. Russell Neuman, Richard Jay Solomon, Lee W. McKnight - 1999 - 350 pages
...could think of no way of restricting speech without creating even more insidious difficulties with "the right of the people ... to petition the government for a redress of grievances." The late Professor Ithiel Pool at MIT used to tell his students that "no law means... | |
| R. Bender - 1998 - 366 pages
...relevant part: "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people ... to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Although the amendment refers only to Congress, the US Supreme Court has applied the... | |
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