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Flag Burning = Free Speech
Flag burning is free speech, ruled the Supreme Court in Texas v. Johnson (1989), stating, "Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable." In response, Congress considered a resolution to alter the First Amendment. The Flag Desecration Amendment failed, for many of the reasons listed in this letter.
"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion . . ."
-- Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, in West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) |