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Amendment I to the U.S. Constitution
"Congress shall make no law ... abridging ... the right of the people peaceably to assemble." |
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| FindLaw: U.S. Constitution: First Amendment: Annotations: Right of Association |
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America at Her Best, by Joseph S. Fulda, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Nov 1981
"Freedom of association includes both the freedom to associate and the freedom not to associate. The flight of productive citizens from the tired cities, in particular, and the Northeast, in general, is a powerful use of both freedoms, a primal expression of the American ideal." |
Boy Scouts of America and Monmouth Council, Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale: Supreme Court of the United States, Brief of Amici Curiae [PDF], by Cato Institute, 28 Feb 2000
"To ensure that government remain subject to the freely renewed consent of the People, rather than impose the views of a temporary regime upon the People, the Constitution offers its most steadfast and unflinching protection to a broadly defined sphere of private association." |
Individual Rights or Civil Rights?, by Sheldon Richman, Freedom Daily, Dec 1995
"We ... have a clash ... On the one side is the alleged right not to be discriminated against. On the other is the right to freedom of association. ... If freedom of association reigns, an individual has a right to associate or not associate using any standard he pleases. But if the right not to be discriminated against reigns, such freedom ... cannot be allowed." |
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On Freedom of Association, by Charles W. Baird, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Jul 2002
"The associations we choose to enter may not undertake violence to accomplish their ends, and within each association one person may not coerce another. Associations must be based on mutual consent. ... We are free to associate with those who will accept us ... and we are free to abstain from associations of which we do not approve ..." |
The Chavez Tragedy, by Sheldon Richman, Freedom Daily, Mar 2001
"The same folks who rhapsodize about freedom of association went berserk at Chavez's benevolent act. ... The immigration issue, freed of its grandiloquent pronouncements about national sovereignty, is nothing more than a matter of freedom of association. Chavez violated no one's rights by what she did." |
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