Examples of Assembly of the People in the following topics:
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- The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights.
- 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.
- State the restrictions imposed upon the federal government and the rights accorded individuals by the 1st Amendment
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- On June 17, with the failure of efforts to
reconcile the three estates,
the Third Estate declared themselves redefined as the
National Assembly, an assembly not of the estates, but of the people.
- Following the storming of the Bastille on July 14, the National Assembly became the effective government of France.
- The leading forces of the Assembly at this time were: the conservative foes of the revolution (later known as "The Right"); the Monarchiens ("Monarchists," also called "Democratic Royalists") allied with Jacques Necker and inclined toward arranging France along lines similar to the British constitution model; and "the Left" (also called "National Party") - a group still relatively united in support of revolution and democracy, representing mainly the interests of the middle classes but strongly sympathetic to the broader range of the common people.
- In it, he argues that the Third Estate – the common people of France – constituted a complete nation within itself and had no need of the "dead weight" of the two other orders, the clergy and aristocracy.
- On August 26, 1789, the Assembly published the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which comprised a statement of principles rather than a constitution with legal effect.
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- The First Amendment establishes the right to assembly and the right to petition the government.
- Freedom of assembly and freedom of association may be used to distinguish between the freedom to assemble in public places and the freedom of joining an association, but both are recognized as rights under the First Amendment's provision on freedom of assembly.
- The right of assembly was originally distinguished from the right to petition.
- Cruikshank (1875), the Supreme Court held that "the right of the people peaceably to assemble for the purpose of petitioning Congress for a redress of grievances, or for anything else connected with the powers or duties of the National Government, is an attribute of national citizenship, and, as such, under protection of, and guaranteed by, the United States. " Justice Waite's opinion for the Court carefully distinguished the right to peaceably assemble as a secondary right, while the right to petition was labeled to be a primary right.
- The right to petition is generally concerned with expression directed to the government seeking redress of a grievance, while the right to assemble is speaking more so to the right of Americans to gather together.
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- The Legislative Assembly first met on October 1, 1791 under the Constitution of 1791.
- The rightists within the assembly consisted of about 260 Feuillants
(constitutional monarchists), whose chief leaders, Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette and Antoine Barnave, remained outside the Assembly, because of their ineligibility for re-election.
- When the king formed a new cabinet mostly of Feuillants, this widened the breach between the king on the one hand and the Assembly and the majority of the common people of Paris on the other.
- The Demonstration of June 20, 1792 - the last peaceful attempt made by the people of Paris to persuade King Louis XVI of France to abandon his current policy and attempt to follow what they believed to be a more empathetic approach to governing - followed.
- The royal family became prisoners and a rump session of the Legislative Assembly suspended the monarchy.
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- The Estates-General of 1789 was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm summoned by Louis XVI to propose solutions to France's financial problems but
it ended when the Third Estate formed into a National Assembly, signaling the outbreak of the French Revolution.
- The Estates-General (or States-General) of 1789 was the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General, a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (First Estate), the nobles (Second Estate), and the common people (Third Estate).
- On June 17, with the failure of efforts to reconcile the three estates, the Communes - or the Commons, as the Third Estate called itself now - declared themselves redefined as the National Assembly, an assembly not of the estates, but of the people.
- Two days later, removed from the tennis court as well, the Assembly met in the Church of Saint Louis, where the majority of the representatives of the clergy joined them.
- After a failed attempt to keep the three estates separate, that part of the deputies of the nobles who still stood apart joined the National Assembly at the request of the King.
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- As the white population grew more resistant to the French Revolution, the National Assembly granted more concessions to free people of color, further intensifying racial conflict.
- Meanwhile, the enslaved population observed this rapid change of events from 1789-1791, listening to the circulation of revolutionary discourse and rumors that the National Assembly was going to free them (or add more protections into the Code Noir to relax their work obligations and restrain their masters' punishment rights).
- By 1792, slaves controlled a third of the island, and their success caused the newly elected Legislative Assembly in France to concede radical reforms.
- The Assembly granted civil and political rights to free men of color in the colonies in March 1792, sending shockwaves throughout Europe and the U.S.
- The National Convention, the first elected Assembly of the First Republic (1792–1804), met in February 1794 under the leadership of Maximilien Robespierre.
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- The Roman Republic was composed of the senate, a number of legislative assemblies, and elected magistrates.
- The comitia centuriata was the assembly of the centuries (soldiers).
- Censors conducted the Roman census, during which
time they could appoint people to the Senate.
- Plebeian tribunes and plebeian
aediles were considered representatives of the people and acted as a popular
check over the Senate through use of their veto powers, thus safeguarding the
civil liberties of all Roman citizens.
- "SPQR" (senatus populusque romanus) was the Roman motto, which stood for "the Senate and people of Rome".
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- Its successor body, the Legislative Assembly, operating under the Constitution of 1791, lasted until September 20, 1792.
- They tended to be people who had made their name through successful political careers in local politics.
- It was during the Revolution when members of the National Assembly divided into supporters of the king to the president's right and supporters of the revolution to his left.
- When the National Assembly was replaced in 1791 by the Legislative Assembly comprising entirely new members, the divisions continued.
- They supported the rights of property and favored free trade and a liberal economy much like the Girondins, but their relationship to the people made them more willing to adapt interventionist economic policies.
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- The governor had the power of absolute veto and could prorogue (i.e., delay) and dissolve the assembly at any time.
- The colonial assemblies had a variety of titles, such as House of Delegates, House of Burgesses, or Assembly of Freemen.
- Assemblies were made up of representatives elected by the freeholders and planters (landowners) of the province.
- Taxes and government budgets also originated in the assembly, and the budget was connected with the raising and equipping of the militia.
- The House of Burgesses was the first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America.
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- One of the stated goals of the National Assembly formed by the Third Estate on June 13, 1789, was to write a constitution.
- Redefining the organization of the French government, citizenship, and the limits to the powers of government, the National Assembly set out to represent the interests of the public.
- The National Assembly asserted its legal presence as part of the French government by establishing its permanence in the Constitution and forming a system of recurring elections.
- The National Assembly was the legislative body, the king and royal ministers made up the executive branch, and the judiciary was independent of the other two branches.
- Therefore the king was allowed a suspensive veto to balance out the interests of the people.