Remember what John Adams told us ?
“The true source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think. . . . Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”
“The prospect now before us in America ought . . . to engage the attention of every person of learning to matters of power and right, that we may be neither led nor driven blindfolded to irretrievable destruction.”
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.”
“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.”
WORDS HAVE MEANING !
What does the first amendment actually tell us? There are five liberties in the 1st amendment. As you read them, make note as to the order in which they are placed in the sentence.
“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 to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
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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 abridging the freedom of the press
- or abridging the right of the people to peaceably assemble
- of abridging the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
What does Assembly and Petition mean as to our 1st amendment rights?
Having an understanding of these two rights is critical as we move forward as We the People.
These are YOUR rights.
Want to find out what they mean?
Attached is a fairly good article. Please read .
Interpretation: Right to Assemble and Petition | The National Constitution Center
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/interpretation/amendment-i/interps/267
Colonial assemblies were made up of representatives elected by the freeholders and planters (landowners) of the province; they were also called the House of Delegates, House of Burgesses, or Assembly of Freemen.
