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About Article II: The Executive Branch / Voicing Your Opinion to the President

Lafayette Park: A First Amendment Site

Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech . . . or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Excerpt from the First Amendment, U.S. Constitution. For at least one hundred years in Lafayette Park, citizens have spoken out—both for and against—issues that concern them. Lafayette Park is a place to voice an opinion to the president and your fellow citizens. Match the photograph of a demonstration with the description.

  1. Reporters surround a man who has just completed a sit-in inside the White House in March 1965. He wanted President Lyndon Johnson to send federal troops to Selma, Alabama to protect civil rights marchers.
  2. In February 1970, more than 400,000 peace petitions are stacked at the White House fence during the Vietnam War period.
  3. In 2001, demonstrators speak out against creating more nuclear weapons.
  4. Suffragists ask President Woodrow Wilson to give women the vote.
  5. Supporters of American troops in Iraq gathered in Lafayette Park in April 2007.

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