protest rights
Civil dissent liberties
Protest rights are the legal protections allowing people to express dissent publicly—through demonstrations, marches, picketing, and similar activities.
In the United States, these derive primarily from First Amendment guarantees of free speech and assembly.
The ACLU defended the protesters' rights.
Discussions of protest rights often involve tensions between free expression and public order.
- police brutalityUnjustified force by officers
- freedom of speechProtected right to speak
- free speechProtected verbal liberty
- civil libertiesRights limiting government power
- freedom of assemblyRight to gather peacefully
peaceful assembly · permit required · arrests · boycotts · constitutional law · hunger strikes · political repression · First Amendment · cultural resistance · international law · strikes · symbolic gestures · marches · taking to the streets · mass demonstration · grassroots organizing · legal restrictions · sit-ins
- rightscivil liberties, right, immunity, liberty, constitutional guarantees
- human rightshuman dignity, civil liberties, right to liberty, right to life, right to vote
- free speechfree expression, freedom of speech, protected speech, speech protection, free press
- protest rightspeaceful assembly, free assembly, public assembly, demonstrations, public demonstrations
- Constitutionpreamble, articles, U.S. Constitution, Article I, First Amendment
- controversiescontroversy, dispute, scandal, outcry, outrage
protest rightsmartial law
Armed forces governance
authoritarian rule · police state · totalitarianism · censorship · political persecution
protest rightsgag orders
Legal prohibitions on disclosure
speech restrictions · press censorship · information control
protest rightsacquiescence
Unresisting acceptance
political apathy · conformity · docility · subjugation · bootlicking