Download or read book Burning the Flag written by Robert Justin Goldstein and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Saving Old Glory written by Robert Justin Goldstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1995, Saving Old Glory provides a detailed account of the origins and development of the American flag desecration controversy.
Download or read book Desecrating the American Flag written by Robert Justin Goldstein and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1996-12-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Desecration of the American Flag written by Charles Kingsbury Miller and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Desecration of the American Flag written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Desecration of the American Flag written by Charles Kingsbury Miller and published by . This book was released on 1899* with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Desecration of the American Flag written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Crime of a Century written by Charles Kingsbury Miller and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Desecration of the American Flag January 29 1904 Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Prohibit the Physical Desecration of the Flag of the United States written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Desecration of the Flag written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alleged Desecration of the American Flag Letter from the Attorney General Relating to Alleged Desecration of the American Flag written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on Desecration of American Flag written by Sons of the Revolution. Connecticut society. [from old catalog] and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alleged Desecration of the American Flag Letter from the Attorney General Relating to Alleged Desecration of the American Flag March 12 1904 Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment written by Randy E. Barnett and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned constitutional scholar and a rising star provide a balanced and definitive analysis of the origins and original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment profoundly changed the Constitution, giving the federal judiciary and Congress new powers to protect the fundamental rights of individuals from being violated by the states. Yet, according to Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick, the Supreme Court has long misunderstood or ignored the original meaning of the amendmentÕs key clauses, covering the privileges and immunities of citizenship, due process of law, and the equal protection of the laws. Barnett and Bernick contend that the Fourteenth Amendment was the culmination of decades of debates about the meaning of the antebellum Constitution. Antislavery advocates advanced arguments informed by natural rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the common law. They also utilized what is today called public-meaning originalism. Although their arguments lost in the courts, the Republican Party was formed to advance an antislavery political agenda, eventually bringing about abolition. Then, when abolition alone proved insufficient to thwart Southern repression and provide for civil equality, the Fourteenth Amendment was enacted. It went beyond abolition to enshrine in the Constitution the concept of Republican citizenship and granted Congress power to protect fundamental rights and ensure equality before the law. Finally, Congress used its powers to pass Reconstruction-era civil rights laws that tell us much about the original scope of the amendment. With evenhanded attention to primary sources, The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment shows how the principles of the Declaration eventually came to modify the Constitution and proposes workable doctrines for implementing the key provisions of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Download or read book Desecration of the American Flag and Prohibitive Legislation written by Charles Kingsbury Miller and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
