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" Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people "to petition the government for a redress of grievances. "
The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge - Page 225
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Reform of Laws Governing Lobbying: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution - 1996 - 192 pages
...efforts are subject. The first amendment of the US Constitution provides that Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. While we must protect constitutional rights and do nothing to abridge the right of the...
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A Wolf in the Garden: The Land Rights Movement and the New Environmental Debate

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...
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Senate Ethics Manual

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...
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Lobbying Disclosure Reform Proposals: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution - 1996 - 86 pages
...efforts are subject. The first amendment of the US Constitution provides that Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. While we cannot and should not do anything to abridge the rights guaranteed by our (1)...
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Recommendations by Members of Congress Relating to Federal Employment ...

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 *...
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SLAPPs: Getting Sued for Speaking Out

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...
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Congressional Review Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law - 1997 - 194 pages
...petition their elected leaders in light of the First Amendment's guarantee that 'Congress shall make no law. . abridging the right of the people. . . to petition the government for redress of enevances. " Point No. 2: Cohen/Strauss' argument that Congressional Review places too much...
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The Gordian Knot: Political Gridlock on the Information Highway

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...
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Congressional Review Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law - 1997 - 178 pages
...petition their elected leaders in lieht of the First Amendment's guarantee that "Congress shall make no law. . ' abridging the right of the people. . . to petition the government for redress of grievances." Point No. 2: Cohen/Strauss' argument that Congressional Review places too much...
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Launching and Operating Satellites:Legal Issues

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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