Prohibit the Physical Desecration of the Flag of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 108
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Justin Goldstein
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 1996-12-01
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780815627166
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Desecrating the American Flag is the only comprehensive, edited, and annotated collection of critical documents regarding the controversies swirling around the desecration of the American flag. Should violators of the Stars and Stripes be prosecuted? Or legally protected? This issue reached center stage in American politics throughout the 1990s when Congress debated whether or not to amend the constitution to forbid flag desecration; but this debate has been hotly contested since the Civil War. Robert Justin Goldstein brings together almost 150 key documents spanning more than 100 years. He culls from a variety of sources—Congressional hearings, debates, legal briefs, oral arguments, newspaper articles, and court rulings, for example—and then carefully edits each document to retain key material. Introductory essays place each document within a broader historical, political, and legal context.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Justin Goldstein
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780873385985
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1989 a political fire storm erupted after the United States Supreme Court declared that dissidents had the constitutional right under the First Amendment to burn the flag. To some, including President George Bush and many members of Congress, the flag was a sacred symbol of American freedoms. They believed its physical destruction posed a serious threat to the country and demanded a constitutional amendment to reverse the Court's decision. For those who defended the Court's ruling, flag desecration was a form of constitutionally protected free speech, and any attempt to forbid such conduct was seen as creating a dangerous precedent. Burning the Flag brings together the disciplines of law, journalism, political science, and history to explain and place the development of the controversy in its full context. It is based on extensive research in legal, congressional, and journalistic sources and on exclusive interviews with nearly 100 of the key players in the dispute, among them flag burners, judges, lawyers and lobbyists on both sides, members of Congress, congressional aides, and journalists. A timely addendum chronicles the late 1995 attempts once again to pass a constitutional amendment on flag desecration, adding to the significance of this readable account. Burning the Flag will be of value to both an academic and a general audience, particularly to civil libertarians, flag buffs, and those interested in popular media, American politics, modern American history, and constitutional law.