Freedom of Association Rights and Liberties under the Law

From colonial times to the information age, an exhaustive survey of one of America''s most contentious constitutional rights. Freedom of Association: Rights and Liberties under the Law chronicles the evolution of a right derived from but not granted in the First Amendment-freedom of association. An opening analysis of the Supreme Court''s ruling against a gay adult member of the Boy Scouts of America illustrates the range and complexity of this issue.Historical discussions of colonial America, including the British Parliament''s efforts to suppress political associations, set the stage for a careful scrutiny of the political and legislative activities of the 1950s and 1960s when the Supreme Court established freedom of association as a constitutionally protected right. A concluding chapter delves into the contemporary issues of antidiscriminatory and campaign finance laws and explores the ever-present tension between liberty-freedom from the state-and equality-protection by the state.>

Product details

• Authors: Robert J. Bresler, Robert Bresler, Robert J Bresler, Bresler Robert J.
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 15.04.2004
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constit; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9781576077726
• ISBN: 978-1-57607-772-6
• Pages: 296
• Series: America's Freedoms; America's Freedoms
• Subjects: USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Civil Society, LAW / Constitutional, HISTORY / United States / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, Equality of Opportunity, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Gay Rights, Campaign finance, egalitarianism, Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, de Tocqueville, Alexis, Guttman, Amy, Bryant v. Zimmerman, Communist Control Act, expressive association, Hurley v. Irish American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston