[nicmarlo]

The first amendment gives you the right to stand in line and ask a question, but not to interrupt!!

Bill of Rights * Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting
an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or
of the press; or
the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to
petition the government for a redress of grievances.

The U.S. Supreme Court recognized the importance of this freedom in the 1937 case De Jonge v. State of Oregon, writing that "the right to peaceable assembly is a right cognate to those of free speech and free press and is equally fundamental." According to the Court the right to assemble is "one that cannot be denied without violating those fundamental principles which lie at the base of all civil and political institutions."

* * *

The First Amendment protects peaceful, not violent, assembly. However, there must a "clear and present danger" or an "imminent incitement of lawlessness" before government officials may restrict free-assembly rights. Otherwise, the First Amendment's high purpose can too easily be sacrificed on the altar of political expediency.

[fightinJAG]

Are you a lawyer?

[Tennessee Nana]

Hi Nic

I was at the Gathering of Eagles in March and Septembewr last year..

The “I-was-just-a-peon-clerk-in-the-JAG-office-and-not-a-real-lawyer-but-I-play-one-on-FR should have been there, and heard the CANSWER crowd...

He would have really had something to faint and wave his hanky about...

Pass fJAG the smelling salts...

[M-cubed]

is the need for a “license” a restriction on the right to assemble???