id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 13986 Cushing, Caleb Speech of Mr. Cushing, of Massachusetts, on the Right of Petition, as Connected with Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia. In The House Of Representatives, January 25, 1836. .txt text/plain 7695 264 56 grievances, and to be heard upon his petition by this House. of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United [The question, Shall this petition be received? the constitutional right of petition, as involved in the disposition right of petition, as the liberties of the People demanded. "Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the People to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." The right of The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People find the right to petition that government existing also as an individual one of the People has a right to be heard by petition on by the Constitution; but the People may petition for any thing; for the right of petition is, by the constitution, secured forever lest, in deciding this general question of the right of petition, it ./cache/13986.txt ./txt/13986.txt