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Freedom of Assembly Viewing Guide

Viewing guide for the Freedom of Assembly Homework Help video.

  1. What right did the Magna Carta implicitly state that barons held? 
  2. What role did colonial assemblies play in the leadup to and during the American Revolution? 
  3. In United States v. Cruikshank, the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment ban on ____ only applied to the ____ government and not ____ governments or individuals. 
  4. In De Jonge v. Oregon, the Supreme Court ruled that the freedom of assembly clause was ____ to apply to ____ governments. 

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Freedom of Assembly | BRI’s Homework Help Series

6 Min

Why is the freedom of assembly an essential right in a free society? Our Homework Help video explores why the Founders included it in the 1st Amendment as well as the landmark Supreme Court cases involving it. Supreme Court cases arguing freedom of assembly debate the protections of the 14th Amendment. Although the Bill of Rights was initially limited to the federal government, incorporation also allows states to be culpable of the protections in the Bill of Rights.