Political Science
Textbooks
Boundless Political Science
Interest Groups
Interest Groups
Political Science Textbooks Boundless Political Science Interest Groups Interest Groups
Political Science Textbooks Boundless Political Science Interest Groups
Political Science Textbooks Boundless Political Science
Political Science Textbooks
Political Science
Concept Version 8
Created by Boundless

The Constitutional Right to Petition the Government

Using the Courts

Using the Courts

Drawing on the First Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court has protected lobbying as free speech in numerous rulings since the early republic.

Source

    Boundless vets and curates high-quality, openly licensed content from around the Internet. This particular resource used the following sources:

    Wikimedia.
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/52/SCOTUSbuilding_1st_Street_SE.JPG/220px-SCOTUSbuilding_1st_Street_SE.JPG CC BY-SA.

Related Terms

  • First Amendment
  • direct lobbying
  • Supreme Court
  • Subjects
    • Accounting
    • Algebra
    • Art History
    • Biology
    • Business
    • Calculus
    • Chemistry
    • Communications
    • Economics
    • Finance
    • Management
    • Marketing
    • Microbiology
    • Physics
    • Physiology
    • Political Science
    • Psychology
    • Sociology
    • Statistics
    • U.S. History
    • World History
    • Writing

    Except where noted, content and user contributions on this site are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 with attribution required.