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freedom of assembly
(redirected from Right to assemble)

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Noun1.freedom of assembly - the right to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances; guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution
civil right - right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"


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Mitsopoulos said that "it is time we got serious", since whatever one may think of the protests, the right to assemble freely and express a dissenting view "is a basic democratic and human right enshrined in the constitution".
Constitution's First Amendment guarantees Americans the right to assemble peaceably for parades, protest marches, a gathering in a national forest to pray for world peace or any other reason.
The leaders "urged the Iranian authorities to ensure that all Iranians are granted the right to assemble and to express themselves peacefully," said a summit statement.
 
 
 
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