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Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization  

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  • In Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization , 307 U.S. 496 (1939), the Supreme Court ruled that banning a group of citizens from holding political meetings in a public place violated the group’s freedom to assemble under the First Amendment. The case helped set the precedent for what is now known as the public forum doctrine, a tool used by courts to determine the constitutionality of speech restrictions implemented on government property, when it secured the right of access to public places for citizens engaging in free speech and free assembly. [Source: Encyclopedia of the First Amendment; Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization (1939)]

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  • 1939

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Hague_v._Committee_for_Industrial_Organization

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