Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1999
ISSN
0029-3571
Publisher
Northwestern University
Language
en-US
Abstract
The First Amendment provides that "Congress shall make no law... abridging.., the right of the people.., to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."1 Unlike the First Amendment's speech, press, and religion clauses, this "Petitions Clause" has not spawned an extensive body of case law or academic commentary. The right to petition has been, in many ways, the First Amendment's poor relation.
Recommended Citation
Gary S. Lawson & Guy I. Seidman,
Downsizing the Right to Petition
,
in
Northwestern University Law Review
641
(1999).
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