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Originally Posted by daswig
Regarding things like perjury, fraud, et cetera being covered by the First Amendment WRT congress making laws about them, it's not the speech that's the issue, it's the intent to steal that's the issue.
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Which is exactly the point, daswig. Actions that are injurious to society (as I firmly believe political parties, or at least the ones that we have, have become) can be excluded from constitutional protection without directly being stated in it. This is generally where cases have gone to the US supreme court and been decided by interpretation. If a law passed banning political parties, the same would probably happen. I would actually find this a very interesting circumstance... lawyers debating the constitutional protection of assembly for politicians vs injury to society which they cause.