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The flag should never touch anything physically beneath it. [9] An urban myth claimed that if the flag touched the ground, it had to be destroyed under the Flag Code; however, it has been affirmed by the American Legion and state governments that this is not the case. [10] [11] The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding or drapery.
The Flag Desecration Amendment (often referred to as the Flag-Burning Amendment) is a proposed addition to the Constitution of the United States that would allow the U.S. Congress to prohibit by statute and provide punishment for the physical "desecration" of the flag of the United States.
The Regional Flag and Regional Emblem Ordinance is the equivalent statute in respect of the Hong Kong flag. Both ordinances ban desecration of the Chinese flag and Hong Kong flag, respectively, through methods including "burning, mutilating, scrawling on, defiling or trampling". [28]
But despite its athletes competing on the floor, one competitor's flag was nowhere to be seen: Taiwan’s. At Paris 2024, Taiwan’s red and blue flag is banned, as is the name “Taiwan” and ...
The flags were flown at half-staff during President Richard Nixon’s inauguration for his second term on Jan. 20, 1973, due to him having lowered them earlier for the death of former President ...
President Joe Biden ordered all U.S. states to lower their flags to half-staff to acknowledge Carter, who died in his Plains, Georgia home on Dec. 29 at age 100. The flags were ordered to remain ...
Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that burning the Flag of the United States was protected speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as doing so counts as symbolic speech and political speech.
A Tennessee school district has banned students from bringing all flags, including American flags, to school in an effort to prevent students from potentially offending others.Students who bring ...