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About: Right to petition is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 114 publications have been published within this topic receiving 966 citations. The topic is also known as: right of petition.


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01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: The politics of decolonization and the evolution of the International Human Rights Project (IHRP) are discussed in this paper, with a focus on the Third World and the right to self-determination.
Abstract: Introduction: The Politics of Decolonization and the Evolution of the International Human Rights Project 1. Human Rights and the Birth of the Third World: The Bandung Conference 2. "Transforming the End into the Means": The Third World and the Right to Self-Determination 3. Putting the Stamps Back On: Apartheid, Anticolonialism, and the Accidental Birth of a Universal Right to Petition 4. "It Is Very Fitting": Celebrating Freedom in the Shah's Iran, the First World Conference on Human Rights,Tehran 1968 5. "According to Their Own Norms of Civilization": The Rise of Cultural Relativism and the Decline of Human Rights Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

240 citations

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01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: Zaeske as discussed by the authors studied women's antislavery petitions to the United States Congress in the period between 1831 to 1865, concluding that women's petitions constitute a signal contribution to abolitionism, as they sparked national debate, a proslavery backlash, and a reorientation of the anti-slavery crusade.
Abstract: Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity. By Susan Zaeske. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 253. Illustrations. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.)Susan Zaeske's long-overdue study of women's antislavery petitions to the United States Congress in the period between 1831 to 1865 makes two interlocking arguments. The first is that women's petitions constitute a signal contribution to abolitionism, as they sparked national debate, a proslavery backlash, and a reorientation of the antislavery crusade. The second is that such petitions advanced the nascent cause of feminism, as they staked women's claim to citizenship and full political participation. Neither argument, in the broad sense, is new; scholars such as Gerda Lerner, Richard H. Sewell, and Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven have made the case for the significance of antislavery petitions. But Zaeske has strengthened that case immeasurably by doing work no other scholar has done before: she has painstakingly recovered and analyzed hundreds and hundreds of petitions (she estimates that some 3 million women's signatures were affixed to antislavery petitions); she has provided a chronological framework for organizing this vast collection of documents; and she has provided lucid analysis of exemplary passages from petitions and thus furnished new insights into some old debates.Zaeske's opening chapter sets the stage by showing that women's petitioning was on the rise in the early nineteenth century and was integral to women's crusades on behalf of evangelical benevolence, temperance, and opposition to Cherokee removal. She then turns her attention to the initial phase of women's antislavery petitioning, from 1831 to 1836. During this phase, before the passage of the gag rule, petitions were vehicles for Garrisonian moral suasion, and women, by adopting the mantle of citizens, "described their actions as motivated by Christian duty and as an extension of the religious speech act of prayer" (48). Despite their deferential cast, however, such petitions sparked controversy and resulted in the congressional gag rule that tabled all antislavery petitions. The gag rule had the unanticipated consequence of ratcheting up the antislavery petition campaign, as abolitionists sought to capitalize on the perception that proslavery forces were infringing on the right of free speech. Moreover, the passage of the gag rule compelled antislavery women and their male allies, during the second phase in Zaeske's narrative (1836-1840), to radicalize their rhetoric and elaborate justifications for female petitioning that cast it not simply as a moral duty but as a constitutional right. Zaeske shows that well-known antislavery events and documents, such as the 1837 women's antislavery convention and Angelina Grimke' s An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States, had as a core concern women's right to petition.Perhaps the most eye-opening section of Zaeske's book is her excellent account of John Quincy Adams's june 1838 speech in the House of Representatives. In response to southern politicians who charged that it was inappropriate and even scandalous for women to enter the domain of politics through their petitions, Adams offered a stirring defense of antislavery women, reminding his audience of female heroism in the Old Testament, of women's patriotic activism during the American Revolution, and of their profound stake in contemporary political issues such as Texas annexation. To the charge that women had no right to petition because they had no right to vote, Adams countered that "women did, in fact, possess the right to vote and that it was an injustice that they were denied the practice of that right" (140). Zaeske clearly relishes the fact that John Quincy Adams, whose mother Abigail's "remember the ladies" letter of 1776 inaugurated the woman's rights debate in America, presented the most extensive defense of women's political participation ever before heard in the halls of Congress. …

131 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that petitioning by collective groups, whether occupational, regionally constituted, or simply the body of people called the commons, was an important form of political communication in the early sixteenth century which allows us an entry into the world of popular politics.
Abstract: This article offers the thesis that petitioning by collective groups, whether occupational, regionally constituted, or simply the body of people called the commons, was an important form of political communication in the early sixteenth century which, although poorly documented and consequently overlooked by historians, allows us an entry into the world of popular politics. The article offers illustrations of the way in which petitions were employed within the city of York, by groups such as weavers or by the commons of East Anglia in 1549 and 1553. The right to petition could not be denied, but mass petitioning was viewed with apprehension by government. Nonetheless, petitioning may be seen as a conservative form of behaviour when compared to calls for insurrection.

61 citations

Book
01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: In this article, the First Fourteen Amendments to the Constitution are discussed and discussed in detail, and a framework for broadcast content regulations is proposed. But it is not discussed in this paper.
Abstract: Preface. 1. Public Communication and the Law. The Sources of Law. The Courts. The Litigation Process: Civil and Criminal. Working with the Law. Limitations of Law. 2. The First Amendment. Theory of Freedom of Expression. Regulating Expression. Tests. Scope of the First Amendment: The Hierarchy of Protected Expression. Who Is Protected? Prior Restraints and Postpublication Punishment. Content-Neutral Regulations. 3. Libel. Libel Terminology. The Plaintiff. The Plaintiff's Burden of Proof. The Defendant's Case. Preventing Libel Suits. Ideas for Reform. 4. Privacy and Personal Security. Private Facts. Intrusion and Trespass. False Light. Commercialization. Emotional Distress and Personal Injury. 5. Intellectual Property. Copyright. Unfair Competition. 6. Corporate Speech. Referenda and Other Public Issues. Elections. Lobbying: The Right to Petition. Communication between Labor and Management. Securities Transactions. 7. Advertising. First Amendment and Advertising. Unfair and Deceptive Advertising. Federal Remedies. Other Federal Regulations. Media's Right to Refuse Advertising. Self-Regulation. 8. Obscenity and Indecency. Obscenity. Violent Pornography. Indecency. Controlling Nonobscene Sexual Expression. 9. The Media and the Judiciary. Defining Jury Bias. Remedies for Prejudicial Publicity. Controlling Conduct in Court. Controlling Prejudicial Publicity. Voluntary Cooperation. Contempt Power. 10. Protection of News Sources, Notes, and Tape. Protection under the Common Law. Protection under the First Amendment. Protection under State Statutes. Protection under Federal Statutes and Regulations. Congressional Authority. Search Warrants. Breaching Confidentiality. 11. Access to Information. Access and the Constitution. Access to Events. Access to Records. Access to Meetings. Obtaining Access: A Final Word. 12. Regulation of Broadcasting. Framework for Broadcast Content Regulations. Federal Communications Commission. Licensing the Broadcast Media. Regulation of Political Candidate Programming. Regulation of Public Issues Programming: The Fairness Doctrine. Other Programming Regulation. Noncommercial Broadcasting. Digital Television (DTV). Low-Power Television (LPTV). 13. Regulation of Cable, Internet, Telephone, and Other Electronic Media. Cable. Internet. Telephone. Other Electronic Communications Media. Appendix A: Finding and Reading the Law. Appendix B: The First Fourteen Amendments to the Constitution. Glossary. Case Index. Subject Index.

59 citations

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TL;DR: The authors examine data from 100 lawsuits and divide them into three stages to highlight the movement of the dispute between political and judicial arenas in each phase, claims are made that reflect the official audience addressed and the official outcome desired Claims made in the political arena were derailed by claims of legal injury, but defendant's legal victory was the likely result of a third claim, one of the Constitutional right to petition the government for redress of grievances.
Abstract: This is a study of attempts to use civil tort action to stifle political expression These lawsuits claim injury resulting from citizen efforts to influence the government or sway voters on an issue of public significance We call these cases “strategic lawsuits against public participation” (SLAPPs) We examine data from 100 lawsuits and divide them into three stages to highlight the movement of the dispute between political and judicial arenas In each phase, claims are made that reflect the official audience addressed and the official outcome desired Claims made in the political arena were derailed by claims of legal injury, but defendant's legal victory was the likely result of a third claim, one of the Constitutional “right to petition the government for redress of grievances” We examine how the judicial system responds to SLAPPs and discuss the potential effect of SLAPPs on political values and participation in American society

42 citations


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