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  2. Flag Desecration Amendment - Wikipedia

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    A history of U.S. laws banning flag burning and other forms of flag desecration, from 1897 to the proposed Flag Desecration Amendment. On Language: Desecration. Column in the New York Times (July 31, 2005) by William Safire on the use of the word desecration in the proposed amendment. Cracking the Flag-Burning Amendment; A Brief History of Flag ...

  3. Texas v. Johnson - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Flag desecration - Wikipedia

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    In common usage, the phrase "flag burning" refers only to burning a flag as an act of protest. However, the United States Flag Code states that "the flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display (for example, the flag being faded or torn), should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning." [159]

  5. Here's How You Should Properly Dispose of an American Flag - AOL

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    Actually, according to the U.S. Flag Code, the preferred method of disposal is burning. Many organizations will hold flag burning ceremonies on Flag Day and are happy to include your flag in their ...

  6. Trump considers jail, loss of citizenship for American flag ...

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    A 1989 U.S. Supreme Court ruling upheld a protestor's right to burn the American flag, but President-elect Trump might want to change that. Trump considers jail, loss of citizenship for American ...

  7. White House condemns protesters for burning American ... - AOL

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    A group of House Republicans restored the U.S. flags around Union Station, and former President Trump used the incident to renew his push for jail sentences for those that desecrate American flags.

  8. Gregory Lee Johnson - Wikipedia

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    Gregory Lee "Joey" Johnson (born 1956) is an American political activist, known for his advocacy of flag desecration. [1] [2] His burning of the flag of the United States in a political demonstration during the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas, led to his role as defendant in the landmark United States Supreme Court case Texas v.

  9. From the archives: When the American flag broke ... - AOL

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    According to an article in the Sept. 22, 1990, edition of the Wilmington Morning Star, the president of Gas World gas stations in the city wanted to fly 375-square-foot American flags over his ...

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