Neither the invective-filled disparagement from White House officials, nor the vulgar video posted by President Donald Trump on Oct. 18, in which he hailed himself wearing a crown and piloting a jet fighter plane while dropping excrement on Americans who participated in the nationwide “No Kings” protests, deterred 7 million protestors in some 3,000 locations across the country who demonstrated the strength and spirit of the majestic First Amendment right of peaceable assembly.

Freedom of assembly, our nation’s founders believed, was an essential, democratic means for protecting the voice of the people, so integral to their republican experiment that they supposed it to be, in the words of Justice Joseph Story, “unquestionable and inherent.”

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