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"This original and provocative book looks at an important constitutional freedom that today is largely forgotten: the right of assembly. While this right lay at the heart of some of the most important social movements in American history--abolitionism, women's suffrage, the labor and civil rights movements--courts now prefer to speak about the freedoms of association and speech. But the right of "expressive association" undermines protections for...
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"Even in an age characterized by increasing virtual presence and communication, speakers still need physical places in which to exercise First Amendment liberties. This book examines the critical intersection of public speech and spatiality. Through a tour of various places on what the author calls the "expressive topography," the book considers a variety of public speech activities, including sidewalk counseling at abortion clinics, residential picketing,...
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Examines the conditions under which a political majority will extend rights of assembly and free speech to a political minority such as the National Socialist Party of America, led by Frank Collin. The party, a splinter group with only 20-30 members, tried to hold a demonstration in 1977 in Skokie, Illinois, where over half the population is Jewish. Analyzes results of a survey of members of the American Civil Liberties Union and Common Cause, considered...
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