Amendment I (Petition and Assembly)

Document 16

Maryland Ratifying Convention, Proposed Amendment

14. That every man hath a right to petition the legislature for the redress of grievances, in a peaceable and orderly manner.

The Founders' Constitution
Volume 5, Amendment I (Petition and Assembly), Document 16
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_assemblys16.html
The University of Chicago Press

Dumbauld, Edward. The Bill of Rights and What It Means Today. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957.

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