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Chapter 40 - Demonstrations, Picketing, and First Amendment Theories

from Section B: Civil Liberties after 1937

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2022

Mark V. Tushnet
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
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Cases involving strict regulation of political and religious demonstrations and the application of traditional doctrines to labor picketing led the Court to develop a rather robust law protecting such activities against regulation, at least when the demonstrations or picketing did not pose a significant threat of violence. The most important case, Hague v. CIO, invoked old-fashioned property law concepts to say that streets and parks had been historically “dedicated” to political and similar demonstrations, creating what came to be known as the “public forum” doctrine. And it held that the Norris-Laguardia Act limiting the power of federal courts (and similar statutes on the state level) to enjoin labor picketing did not violate the federal constitution, and then defined the scope of the Act expansivley to cover an effort by an organization of African Americans to force employers in Washington DC to hire more black workers. The decisions seen as a group fit reasonably well into the emerging theory of interest group pluralism, where the Constitution provided the grounds for political (and economic) combat.

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The Hughes Court
From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941
, pp. 1060 - 1115
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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