Freedom of Association

The US was designed to be a small government, free market meritocracy and has been more successful than any other country. The fact that we were free to operate the private sector economy with little or no government interference allowed the US to provide the highest standard of living on the planet.

 

Business Proprietors chose who they would deal with and were careful to select those who were smart, honest and fair. They spent time with their business associates and got to know them well. They judged people individually based on their abilities and the “content of their character”.

 

Government has drifted from this practice and became so large and intrusive that they have made government corrupt and have encouraged corruption in the private sector.  The Congress has allowed many unconstitutional laws to allow our liberty to be diminished and by 2016 it had been almost destroyed.

 

Freedom of Association is a personal right and is necessary to engage in free enterprise.

Annotation 12 - First Amendment - Right of Association

''It is beyond debate that freedom to engage in association for the advancement of beliefs and ideas is an inseparable aspect of the 'liberty' assured by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which embraces freedom of speech. Of course, it is immaterial whether the beliefs sought to be advanced by association pertain to political, economic, religious or cultural matters, and state action which may have the effect of curtailing the freedom to associate is subject to the closest scrutiny.'' It would appear from the Court's opinions that the right of association is derivative from the First Amendment guarantees of speech, assembly, and petition, although it has at times seemingly been referred to as a separate, independent freedom protected by the First Amendment. The doctrine is a fairly recent construction, the problems associated with it having previously arisen primarily in the context of loyalty-security investigations of Communist Party membership, and these cases having been resolved without giving rise to any separate theory of association.  

 

http://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment1/annotation12.html

 

As you can see from the article above, the legal system treats freedom of association only in its political context and encourages sedition. It ignores freedom of association in business.

 

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader