- My right is the right to assemble. The right to assemble is the individual right to come together with other individuals and collectively express, promote, pursue and defend common interests. The right to assemble can be interchangeable with the freedom of association. It is the right of citizens to gather peacefully.
- My right exists to give people more natural rights. This gives people the ability to argue controversies that are put against an entity. It gives them the right to protest, boycott, and to march against what they feel is right. This right exists because we are human and we make mistakes naturally.
- What it means to exercise my right is to come together to protest and to express feelings freely towards something they disagree on. It means that you can protest a law or policy if you feel that it is not right in any way, such as racism, sexism, or any other form discrimination. You can boycott a certain place or service to show them that without the customers, there is no business. Which forces them to change their law/policy that they had meant to change in the first place.
- Limitations that exist on my right are enacting time, place, and manner restrictions.
**The General Assembly shall not enact any local, special, or private law in the following cases:
(1) For the punishment of crime.
(2) Providing a change of venue in civil or criminal cases.
(3) Regulating the practice in, or the jurisdiction of, or changing the rules of evidence in any judicial proceedings or inquiry before the courts or other tribunals, or providing or changing the methods of collecting debts or enforcing judgments or prescribing the effect of judicial sales of real estate.
(4) Changing or locating county seats.
(5) For the assessment and collection of taxes, except as to animals which the General Assembly may deem dangerous to the farming interests.
(6) Extending the time for the assessment or collection of taxes.
(7) Exempting property from taxation.
(8) Remitting, releasing, postponing, or diminishing any obligation or liability of any person, corporation, or association to the Commonwealth or to any political subdivision thereof.
(9) Refunding money lawfully paid into the treasury of the Commonwealth or the treasury of any political subdivision thereof.
(10) Granting from the treasury of the Commonwealth, or granting or authorizing to be granted from the treasury of any political subdivision thereof, any extra compensation to any public officer, servant, agent, or contractor.
(11) For registering voters, conducting elections, or designating the places of voting.
(12) Regulating labor, trade, mining, or manufacturing, or the rate of interest on money.
(13) Granting any pension.
(14) Creating, increasing, or decreasing, or authorizing to be created, increased, or decreased, the salaries, fees, percentages, or allowances of public officers during the term for which they are elected or appointed.
(15) Declaring streams navigable, or authorizing the construction of booms or dams therein, or the removal of obstructions therefrom.
(16) Affecting or regulating fencing or the boundaries of land, or the running at large of stock.
(17) Creating private corporations, or amending, renewing, or extending the charters thereof.
(18) Granting to any private corporation, association, or individual any special or exclusive right, privilege, or immunity.
(19) Naming or changing the name of any private corporation or association.
(20) Remitting the forfeiture of the charter of any private corporation, except upon the condition that such corporation shall thereafter hold its charter subject to the provisions of this Constitution and the laws passed in pursuance thereof. - These limitations exist because they can prevent violent riots and it helps to control the groups. Some examples are preventing traffic congestion and prohibiting interference with nearby activities.
- If I had to give up this right, I would want the right to express my own ideas and feelings toward other people's ideas and feelings freely in return.
Sources:
- http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2276
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_assemble
- http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/assembly/overview.aspx
- http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/bill_of_rights/media/assembly.htm
- http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/assembly/topic.aspx?topic=freedom_association
- http://vlex.com/vid/powers-general-assembly-limitations-319665
- http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/government-in-ireland/irish-constitution-1/freedom_of_assembly
- http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1O89-assemblyssctnndpttnrghtst.html
- http://members.mobar.org/civics/FreetoAssemble.htm
- http://www.usatoday.com/educate/college/casestudies/20061003-Assembly.pdf
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