Updated August 09, 2016. Creationists like to argue that evolution can't be science because we can't directly observe evolution in action â and since science requires direct observation, evolution is necessarily excluded from the realm of science.
Right to Assemble / Right to Petition The right to assemble allows people to gather for peaceful and lawful purposes. Implicit within this right is the right to association and belief. The Supreme Court has expressly recognized that a right to freedom of association and belief is implicit in the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Congress shall make no law... abridging...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Under modern Supreme Court jurisprudence, the right to petition and the right of peaceable assembly have been almost completely collapsed into freedom of speech. Yet an analysis of the text and background of the First Amendment suggests that the petition and assembly rights have independent scope.