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4 - Cognate Rights and Democratic Citizenship

from Part I - The Framers’ Democratic First Amendment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2020

Ashutosh Bhagwat
Affiliation:
University of California at Davis School of Law
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Chapter 4 ties the themes of the first three chapters together and develops a theory of how the rights discussed in those chapters operate together to advance a particular form of active, participatory citizenship championed in the early Republic by the Republican Party of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. The chapter’s first key point is that the rights of the Democratic First Amendment are distinct but, to use the Supreme Court’s word, “cognate.” They operate together and share a common purpose of advancing democratic self-governance. In particular, these rights are generally most effective and most important when exercised in tandem, such as through speech and petitions advanced jointly by associations. Second, these rights together were meant to create a new form of democratic citizenship. In particular, during the great battles of the 1790s between the Federalist and Republican parties, especially over the Democratic Republican Societies, the Republicans came to appreciate why the principle of popular sovereignty that drove the American Revolution necessitated a wholly new and more active role for citizens vis-à-vis their elected officials than the more hierarchical and passive model championed by the Federalists, and how the First Amendment supported that model.

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Print publication year: 2020

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