LibGuides: First Amendment: Right to Assembly

Right to Assembly

Freedom of assembly is the right of people to gather peacefully to exchange ideas or to protest social, economic, or political conditions and demand reform. Today, most public gatherings proceed without active interference by police or other officials. However, the government can regulate the time, place, and manner of public assemblies. Sometimes law enforcement officers make arrests when political demonstrations are large or controversial, or when the demonstrations threaten to turn violent.

eBooks on Right to Assembly

Sidewalks by Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris; Renia Ehrenfeucht
ISBN: 9780262123075
Publication Date: 2009-03-20
Examines the evolution of an undervalued urban space and how conflicts over competing uses—from the right to sit to the right to parade—have been negotiated.
Generation on Fire by Jeff Kisseloff
ISBN: 9780813124162
Publication Date: 2006-12-29
Kisseloff takes readers inside the courtroom of the Chicago Eight and into a communal household in Vermont. From the stage at Woodstock to the playing fields of the NFL and finally to a fateful confrontation at Kent State, Generation on Fire brings the'60s alive again.

Articles on Right to Assembly

Articles on Freedom of Assembly
Academic articles on the right to assembly from the database Opposing Viewpoints.

Supreme Court Cases

U.S. Supreme Court Cases
List of Supreme Court cases involving the First Amendment and grouped by key issue.
Listen to the Oral Arguments
Listen to the oral arguments before the Supreme Court through Oyez. You can also Google Oyez AND [case name].
Oyez for Pentagon Papers Case
The New York Times Co. v. U.S. is one of the most critical First Amendment cases relating to government information (Pentagon papers) and the press. Listen to the oral arguments to learn what the Court cared most about.