De Jonge v. Oregon, 299 U.S. 353 (1937), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause applies to freedom of assembly. The Court found that Dirk de Jonge had the right to organize a Communist Party and to speak at its meetings, even though the party advocated industrial or political change in revolution. However, in the 1950s with the fear of communism on the rise the Court ruled in Dennis v. United States (1951) that Eugene Dennis, who was the leader of the Communist Party, violated the Smith Act by advocating the forcible overthrow of the United States government.

See also

• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 299
• Whitney v. California,
• Dennis v. United States,

Further reading

• Chafee, Zechariah (1941). Free Speech in the United States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• Friendly, Fred; Elliott, Martha (1984). The Constitution: That Delicate Balance. New York: Random House.

External links

• 299 U.S. 353 Full text of the opinion courtesy of Findlaw.com.
• First Amendment Library entry on DeJonge v. Oregon