No state grants an explicit legal right to demonstrate as such

Evidence

To this day, national authorities throughout the world generally resist granting a legal right to demonstrate as such. Democratic governments usually put rights to associate, to form labor unions, and to strike explicitly into their legal codes. Demonstrations do not receive that treatment. Instead, both democratic and nondemocratic governments typically control demonstrations through legislation governing freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, and public order, with police as the main enforcers (Fillieule 1997b; Lindenberger 1995; della Porta and Reiter 1998). — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1196

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s test of whether institutional absorption (constitutional rights regimes) treats subordinate-group demonstration differently from other rights — Tilly’s point that demonstrations lack explicit codification is the hinge for checking whether ‘rights defense’ framing can still legitimize dominant-group counter-demonstrations. — connects to: State courts protect rights the federal Constitution does not guarantee — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3371; Constitutional sense is worthless without the class power able to enforce it; Laws criminalizing conduct shielded by fundamental rights are unconstitutional — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1403 (+2 more)
• QUESTION: If demonstrations as such are never legally codified in democratic states, how does the asymmetry the reader hypothesizes — institutional regimes channeling subordinate-group politicization via codified civil rights — actually operate for demonstrations specifically, which remain wedged between speech and assembly law?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1196

Broader Connections

• Announcing a constitutional right does not settle its meaning or guarantee compliance. #complicates (0.78) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2938
• Laws criminalizing conduct shielded by fundamental rights are unconstitutional #expands (0.74) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1403
• Constitutional sense is worthless without the class power able to enforce it #complicates (0.73)
• State courts protect rights the federal Constitution does not guarantee #qualifies (0.72) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3371
• Legal rights are unenforceable when the entire community opposes them #complicates (0.71) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 37