...amendment. The amendment states : Congress shall make no law * * * abridging the freedom of speech * * * or the right of the people * * * to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Yet Brace's signing a "Negotiations Now" petition, calling for a cessation of our bombing...

...The amendment states : Congress shnll make no law * * * abridging the freedom of speech * • * or the right of the people * • * to petition the Government for a redress of grievancea Yet Bruce's signing a "Negotiations Now" petition, calling for a cessation of our bombing...

...frivolous lawsuits." •As pertinent herein, the First Amendment provides: "Congress shall make no law * * * abridging • • • the right of the people * * * to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." The rights quaranteed to the citizen by the First Amendment to the Constitution are...

...on which Mr. St. Clair relied for his "freedom of expression." For example, the companion phrase — "the right of the people . . . to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" — testifies that the first amendment is concerned with "the right of the people peaceably...

...government. Lobbying, of course, is sanctioned by the First Amendment to the Constitution as an exercise of "the right of the people . . . to petition the Government for a redress of grievances,* and the efforts of organized interests to influence government policy have become an...

...Access to the courts is a fundamental right 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. In recent years the content of that right has been brought sharply into focus. In NAACP...

...of the first amendment of the Bill of Rights, the relevant sentence reads: "Congress shall make no law — abridging — the right of the people — to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Originally a limitation on congressional power, it now applies to the States. Clearly,...

...to Members. BACKGROUND The first Article in our Bill of Rights provides that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the . . . right of the people ... to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." The exercise of this Right involves not only petition by groups of citizens with common...

...Petition Clause of the First Amendment to the US Constitution provides that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging ... the right of the people ... to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." cy. Citizens have a compelling interest, which is separate and distinct from their...

...As Justice Jackson argued twenty- five years ago: "The First Amendment forbids Congress to abridge the right of the people 'to petition the government for a redress of grievances.' If this right is to have an interpretation consistent with that given to other First...