 | Maine. Legislature - 1842 - 1068 pages
...parts of this article, and it declares in express terms, that Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people " to petition the government for a redress of grievances." The language is general, and not confined to particular persons or subjects — it... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 802 pages
...amendments to the Constitution, it is said, provides only that " Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people to petition the government for a redress of grievances ; " and this rule is not a law. Sir, this is sticking to the bark of the Constitution... | |
 | Seabred Dodge Pratt - American poetry - 1852 - 418 pages
...which too much can not be said, by those whose grand, political axiom is "freedom and equality," is the right of the people to petition the government for a redress of grievances. This, it has been said, is the last right which the people have ever been willing to... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 876 pages
...amendments to the Constitution, it is said, provides only that " Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people to petition the government for a redress of grievances ; " and this rule is not a law. Sir, this is sticking to the bark of the Constitution... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Federal government - 1890 - 222 pages
...right of petition is guaranteed. [Art. .57.] United States. — [Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people] to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. [Amendment /.] §301. Power over citizens : — Civil rights; —Equal protection of... | |
 | Walter W. Spooner - Drinking of alcoholic beverages - 1891 - 684 pages
...provisions of the United States Constitution is the following: " Congress shall make no law abridging . . . the right of the people ... to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." The Courts, with practical unanimity, have interpreted this clause by declaring that... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - History - 1897 - 524 pages
...right of petition. The Constitution provides that " Congress shall make no law . . . abridging . . . the right of the people ... to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Under this right the antislavery people had long been petitioning Congress to abolish... | |
 | Edwin Erle Sparks - History - 1904 - 524 pages
...reject such petitions. The constitutional provision that Congress should make no ' ' law' ' abridging the right of the people to petition the Government for a redress of grievance was not violated, he claimed, by rejecting a petition in one branch of Congress. Rejection... | |
 | Edwin Erle Sparks - United States - 1904 - 478 pages
...reject such petitions. The constitutional provision that Congress should make no ' ' law" abridging the right of the people to petition the Government for a redress of grievance was not violated, he claimed, by rejecting a petition in one branch of Congress. Rejection... | |
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Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people ... to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. 
