A History of Interest Groups and Political Parties in American Politics
Posted on March 10, 2018
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.09.2018
The Supreme Court has ruled that petitioning the government by way of lobbying is protected by the Constitution as free speech.
The ability of individuals, groups, and corporations to lobby the government is protected by the right to petition in the First Amendment. It is protected by the Constitution as free speech; one accounting was that there were three Constitutional provisions which protect the freedom of interest groups to “present their causes to governmentâ€, and various decisions by the Supreme Court have upheld these freedoms over the course of two centuries. Corporations have been considered in some court decisions to have many of the same rights as citizens, including their right to lobby officials for what they want. As a result, the legality of lobbying took “strong and early root†in the new republic.
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