Authority tolerance of demonstrations lagged decades behind their practice

Evidence

In Western Europe and North America, the effort to marry WUNC displays with sustained campaigns took decades, and faced serious legal obstacles. As England’s Chartists launched their national campaign on behalf of workers’ political rights in 1838, they energetically organized processions and mass meetings to galvanize and publicize their cause (Goodway 1982, 24–37). … By that time, however, English authorities had grudgingly acknowledged the legality of such demonstrations, so long as they did not violate the Riot Act by actively threatening further illegal behavior such as property destruction or sedition (Thompson 1984, 71). — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1191

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1191
• XREF: connects to: Legal toleration of demonstrations took half a century of struggle along three fronts — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1194; Legalizing demonstrations made claim-making less violent but more frequent — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1326; The American public absorbed antiwar protests with bemused tolerance rather than hostility — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 1049

Broader Connections

• Legal toleration of demonstrations took half a century of struggle along three fronts #corroborates (0.96) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1194
• The American public absorbed antiwar protests with bemused tolerance rather than hostility #exemplifies (0.78) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1049
• Legalizing demonstrations made claim-making less violent but more frequent #qualifies (0.75) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1326