Liberty's Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly

288 Pages·2012·2.118 MB·English

by  John D. Inazu

LIBERTY’S
REFUGE
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L I B E R T Y ’ S
R E F U G E
THE FORGOTTEN
FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY
John D. Inazu
New Haven & London
Copyright © 2012 by John D. Inazu.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Inazu, John D.
Library’s refuge : the forgotten freedom of assembly / John D. Inazu.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-300-17315-4 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Assembly, Right of—United States.
2. Freedom of association—United States. I. Title.
KF4778.153 2012
342.7308'54–dc23
2011021414
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For Byrd and Taizo
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments, ix
CHAPTER 1. Overview of the Argument, 1
CHAPTER 2. The Right Peaceably to Assemble, 20
CHAPTER 3. The Emergence of Association in the
National Security Era, 63
CHAPTER 4. The Transformation of Association in the Equality Era, 118
CHAPTER 5. A Theory of Assembly, 150
Conclusion, 185
Notes, 187
Index, 253
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am grateful for substantial advice and comments from Jeff Spinner-
Halev, Mike Lienesch, Stanley Hauerwas, Jeff Powell, Susan Bickford,
Amin Aminfar, Rick Garnett, Guy-Uriel Charles, and James Boyle. I owe
a particular note of thanks to Andy Koppelman for his generous engage-
ment with a book with which he has many disagreements. Thanks also to
Rob Vischer, Gerald Postema, Jim Skillen, Bob Cochran, Kristen
Johnson, Max Eichner, Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Roman Hoyos, Neil Siegel,
Nathan Chapman, Bill English, Kim Krawiec, Jed Purdy, Bill Marshall,
Larry Helfer, Stuart Benjamin, Jack Knight, Joseph Blocher, Sara Beale,
David Lange, Ryan Messmore, Jonathan Mitchell, Ernie Young, Steve
Smith, Paul Haagen, Michael Curtis, Dan Blinka, and Jason Mazzone.
This book benefited from audiences at the Harvard Graduate
Conference in Political Theory and faculty workshops at Duke University
School of Law and the University of North Carolina School of Law.
Thanks to the library staffs at Duke University School of Law (especially
Jennifer Behrens, Molly Brownfield, and Kelly Leong), the University of
North Carolina, and Syracuse University. The final stages of this
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