I thought we had one in all states and territories of the USA, it’s called the 1st amendment. Why do we need more laws to enforce it?
Government schools teach ignorance of that portion of the archaic 1st Amendment. That ignorance is reinforced by a media that despises truth.
Because that's how they subvert the Constitution.
Same reason we had to have a Miranda decision, despite an extant 5th Amendment....or Heller, or laws explicitly permitting open carry, in spite of the presence of the 2nd...
Because agents of the government will find ways to violate our rights until and unless they are explicitly and enforceably forbidden to do so.
Becasue that's what they do.
Because the Constitution and the Bill of Rights have been systematically gutted at least since Woodrow Wilson's time.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 effectively trashed the right of free association. Perhaps it was thought necessary to bring about the full participation of black Americans into American society, and I find no fault with the motivation.
I'm just wondering how it all worked out, and how black life has improved.
Still, that's not the point. The right to free association was trashed, and that's part of the price that was paid; the rest being the assumption of unlimited power by the courts to defy the Congress, the states, and the people.