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Unlike Japan, the USA doesn't have an explicit constitutional guarantee of freedom of association (though the Supreme Court - reasonably - starts to read such a
by taejo 11y ago
Unlike Japan, the USA doesn't have an explicit constitutional guarantee of freedom of association (though the Supreme Court - reasonably - starts to read such a right into the first amendment in the 50s).
If I understand what I'm reading correctly, the pre-1914 trade union ban was not a ban on association (workers could still form professional associations, working-men's clubs, etc.) but on "cartel-like" behaviour: collective bargaining, strike action, etc.
- vinceguidry 11y agoI wouldn't read too much into it, Japan has a Western style constitution, and the idea of a universal right to free association didn't really start to coalesce until the mid-20th century. Japan's constitution happened to get ratified in 1947. If we had to do the US Constitution over, there would probably be freedom to associate codified.