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" Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the government for a redress... "
Encyclopædia Americana, ed. by F. Lieber assisted by E. Wigglesworth (and T ... - Page 438
by Encyclopaedia Americana - 1830
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The American Commonwealth

James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1906 - 396 pages
...prohibiting the free exercise thereof ; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances. (13) A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right...
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The United States of America: A Pictorial History of the American ..., Volume 5

United States - 1908 - 470 pages
...prohibiting the free exercise thereof. It may not abridge the freedom of speech or the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances. The people reserved the right to bear arms. Soldiers may not be quartered in any house...
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The Adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment: By Horace Edgar Flack

Horace Edgar Flack - United States - 1908 - 298 pages
...statement of those rights was as follows : " Such as the freedom of speech and of the press, the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances a right appertaining to each and all the people; a right to keep and to bear arms ; the...
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The South in the Building of the Nation: History of the states, ed. by J. A ...

Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler, Franklin Lafayette Riley, James Curtis Ballagh, John Bell Henneman, Edwin Mims, Thomas Edward Watson, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Joseph Walker McSpadden - American literature - 1909 - 562 pages
...prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and petition the Government for a redress of grievances.* A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of...
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The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other ..., Volume 3

Francis Newton Thorpe - Charters - 1909 - 678 pages
...prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances. ART. 5. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in this State otherwise...
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Amending the Constitution Relative to the Taking of Private Property ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Eminent domain - 1953 - 32 pages
...without act of Congress, take possession of private property any more than he can abridge the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Further, I submit that the adoption of the Bill of Rights not only obviates any presumption...
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The Southern California District of the Communist Party: Structure ...

United States. Congress. House Un-American Activities - 1959 - 336 pages
...Article I says that Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech or the press or the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of their grievances. I consider a question which discusses my activities is formed within the framework...
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The Southern California District of the Communist Party: Structure ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities - Communism - 1959 - 340 pages
...Article I says that Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech or the press or the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of their grievances. I consider a question which discusses my activities is formed within the framework...
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Proceedings ..., Volume 51

New York State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1928 - 642 pages
...we take our recess : The Constitution still provides, if my memory serves me right, that the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances shall never be denied. (Loud applause.) And if the gentlemen and women of the Bar wish to...
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Nominations of Abe Fortas and Homer Thornberry: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1968 - 1332 pages
...first eight amendments of the Constitution; such as the freedom of speech and of the press; the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances, a right appertaining to each and all the people; the right to keep and to bear arms; the...
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