Let's remember the 'peaceably' part of First Amendment
By The Herald Editorial Board
The First Amendment has been getting a workout in recent days.
Even amid abuses of those rights, that’s for the good.
Like all exercise, use of our freedoms of speech and assembly strengthens those civic muscles. And those workouts will continue as protests press on in Los Angeles and elsewhere over the alleged excesses of the Trump administration’s immigration policy and more general “No Kings Day” rallies scheduled for Saturday throughout the nation.
Most of us will not need a reminder that the First Amendment inserts the word “peaceably” between “the right of the people” and “to assemble.” We understand that duty when expressing grievances; even when we hold the stakes and the reason for our protests as fundamental and existential to our democracy, our rights and our humanity.
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