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Large protests after the Alien and Sedition Acts
:Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or '''the right of the people peaceably to assemble''', and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
:Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or '''the right of the people peaceably to assemble''', and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
After the conclusion of the [[American Revolution]], protests did not cease to be distinctly American. Protesting wasn't just an act against the king. After the passage of the highly unpopular [[Alien and Sedition Acts]], protests occurred across the country,<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Alien_and_Sedition_Acts_of_1798/dX3_CwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT104 The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798]</ref> with some of the largest being seen in Kentucky, where the crowds were so large they filled the streets and the entire town square.<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Citizenship_Revolution/IbqTcM4rrR8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA168 The Citizenship Revolution - Politics and the Creation of the American Union, 1774-1804]</ref>
In more recent American and world history, protests have become a favorite tactic of liberals and revolutionaries, which are usually riots and not protests. A frequent pattern is to announce a "peaceful" protest and then provoke the authorities into using a degree of force which appears excessive. This tactic worked well at [[Kent State protests|Kent State]], where after student rioting and an alleged sniper attack, members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed students, killing four and wounding nine others. In several cases, liberals and revolutionaries often used the term "protest" to refer to what would be better described as [[riot]]s, and during at least the 1960s also mistook that for "free speech" and a demonstration of unpopularity for something, to the extent that several anti-war protestors assumed that North Vietnam having no protests meant that the North Vietnamese government was actually "popular" among the people of North Vietnam (when in reality, if the people attempted to speak out against the North Vietnam Communist regime, they would have been killed).
In more recent American and world history, protests have become a favorite tactic of liberals and revolutionaries, which are usually riots and not protests. A frequent pattern is to announce a "peaceful" protest and then provoke the authorities into using a degree of force which appears excessive. This tactic worked well at [[Kent State protests|Kent State]], where after student rioting and an alleged sniper attack, members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed students, killing four and wounding nine others. In several cases, liberals and revolutionaries often used the term "protest" to refer to what would be better described as [[riot]]s, and during at least the 1960s also mistook that for "free speech" and a demonstration of unpopularity for something, to the extent that several anti-war protestors assumed that North Vietnam having no protests meant that the North Vietnamese government was actually "popular" among the people of North Vietnam (when in reality, if the people attempted to speak out against the North Vietnam Communist regime, they would have been killed).