It is tragically ironic that a design commissioned by a repressive monarchy to forestall the possibility of peaceable assembly might be referred to as an 'attractor' and lauded for its 'radical gesture.'.
The Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association cited a "worsening climate for free speech and peaceable assembly".
By now, his predecessor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, who had a tenuous grasp of the First Amendment's guaranteed right of peaceable assembly, would have probably ordered the police to clear the area — with water cannon, if necessary.
Well, as it turns out, there's this whole tradition of "peaceable assembly" and the right to "petition the Government for a redress of grievances".
Black students were least sanguine about the right to peaceable assembly: 60percentt saw it as threatened, compared with 29percentt of white students.
As he sees it, Mike Saltz spent Saturday night in jail for exercising his natural-born rights of free speech and peaceable assembly.
The judge, Michael D. Stallman, wrote in his ruling Tuesday afternoon, "The court is mindful of movants' First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and peaceable assembly".
"Whatever else it meant for Americans, black or white," he wrote, "it shows the strength of this country when our constitutional right to peaceable assembly can be exercised in such thousands, with such dignity and happy determination".
In theory, the right to peaceable assembly is as fundamental to the French conception of citizenship as it is to the American one, but in practice it's something more, a mode of cultural expression as well as an act of political solidarity.
The resolution put forward on the House floor by Mr. Boehner not only honored the dead and the wounded, and praised the bravery of those who responded to the shooting but also reaffirmed "the bedrock principle of American democracy and representative government" – the right to peaceable assembly enshrined in the First Amendment.
