free assembly
Constitutional meeting freedom
Free assembly is the right of people to gather peacefully for shared purposes—protests, meetings, religious services, political organizing.
It appears in legal and political contexts as a fundamental civil liberty: The Constitution protects free assembly.
Often paired with free speech, as both involve collective expression.
Also called freedom of assembly.
- peaceful protestNonviolent collective expression of dissent
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- rallyGathering for a cause
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
march · sit in · congregation · town square · crowd · picket · plaza · square · rights · civil rights · speech · petition · movement · dissent · solidarity · banner · megaphone · chanting
- freedomexpression, speech, political liberty, belief, conscience
- human rightshuman dignity, civil liberties, right to liberty, right to life, fundamental rights
- liberal democracyliberal democracy, civil liberties, individual rights, rule of law, separation of powers
- protest rightsright to protest, protest rights, demonstrations, peaceful protest, public demonstrations
- political reformpolitical reform, electoral reform, campaign finance, term limits, redistricting
- rightscivil liberties, constitutional rights, right, rights, human rights
free assemblyauthoritarianism
Concentrated, unchecked governmental power
totalitarianism · political repression · police state · tyranny · dictatorship
free assemblyhouse arrest
Court-ordered domestic detention
isolation · solitary confinement · detention · lockdown · mass incarceration
free, assembly, freely, freedom, freeing, freed, freer, freest, freeman