Is there a synergy between the clauses of the First Amendment? After all, the framers could have specified each as a separate amendment.
I believe that there is a synergy. Our political parties have been considered "peaceable assemblies" which "speak freely" and "petition our Government" by supporting candidates for election to public office. See Ginsberg, Benjamin, Theodore J. Lowi and Margaret Weir, We the People: an Introduction to American Politics (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, seventh edition, 2009).
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