Michael+Danner

hoff, jeanne. "The Daily campus." //google.com//. 9/11/02. Web. 3 Dec 2009.


 * 1) The american flag repersents the strugle of 50 states towards the rupublic and how it upholds.
 * 2) The first case of flag descresion was Texas v.s Johnson in 1989 it divided the nation.
 * 3) Johnson protested the policies of reagan administration.
 * 4) The texas court belived johnson violated the law and should be prosecuted.
 * 5) But under the first admindment Johnson had the right to burn the flag as a part of free speach.
 * 6) That year democrats proposed the act.
 * 7) both houses aproved the act.
 * 8) The supreme court however declined the act.
 * 9) The admenment recived 60 votes
 * 10) it was 4 votes short of it being legalized.
 * 11) most belive it should be legalized because of free speach others think that it shouldent be allowd because you shouldent be allowd to burn the nations symbol its an act of descresion and it should stay illegal.
 * 12) if you give up one right they think more will be taken away.
 * 13) free speach is alowd and flag burning is an act of free speach
 * 14) more and more people think people should be put in jail for doing this.
 * 15) The supreme court thinks it should not be illegal
 * 16) houses of congress declared it the FLAG BURNING ACT, supreme court disigreed.
 * 17) The senate started shifting posistions on the 106th congress
 * 18) senate wanted the act to pass but changed mind after a little bit.
 * 19) local police wanted it to stay illegal
 * 20) most think that september,11,2002 will lead to more terrorizum.

petrocelli, joseph. //should flag burning be prohibited?// july,8th,2008: n. pag. Web. 4 Dec 2009
 * 1) for 200 years it was illegal to burn the united states flag
 * 2) 73% of americans think it should stay illegal the other 21 do not.
 * 3) On June 23, 2005, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a measure which would outlaw desecration of the American flag.
 * 4) The measure passed 286 to 130
 * 5) nowere in the constitution is the federal goverment given the power to abridge pollitacal expresion.
 * 6) Hate speech is a form of illegal speech so sould burning the flag.
 * 7) some people think that the flag is not that big of a symbol/it dosent mean anything.
 * 8) Freedom of speach is not an absoulute right
 * 9) the flag repersents the country that is why it shouldent be allowd
 * 10) The flag repersent freedom of the u.s constitution.
 * 11) there are already laws for burning and for making public hazards already exsist
 * 12) The senate needed 63 votes for it to pass
 * 13) burning the flag is like yelling FIRE in a crowded room **illegal.**
 * 14) In the end the admenment fell one vote short.
 * 15) The flag is singular
 * 16) The goverment feels is offinsive and dissageable
 * 17) you shouldent be allowd to burn the nations symbol
 * 18) you should be allowd to protest but not take offinsive action
 * 19) act reasonable and just leave if you dont like the country
 * 20) The symbol is protected by protest.

"update:Flag desecration." //Update:Flag desecration// october,6,2006: n. pag. Web. 4 Dec 2009.
 * 1) Dan Holden was suspended from school for burning two flags in front of his students
 * 2) burning the u.s flag is abhorrent
 * 3) currently there is no law for flag burning
 * 4) every state has a law about burning the flag except Alaska
 * 5) When people see the flag being burnt they question the constitutions ability to uphold America
 * 6) The flag wasn't always so charished
 * 7) during the last 7eral decades The flag has been used in commercials and advertisements
 * 8) An American flag association was formed
 * 9) 56 favor that it should be illegal the other 40 do not and there is 4 percent who dont know.
 * 10) most people don't know why the constitution wastes there time.
 * 11) southerners are most who burn the flag but not all.
 * 12) 48 states passed laws banning flag desecration.
 * 13) you can get in trouble for wearing a flag on you're shorts
 * 14) you're allowed to put peace sines on the flag as a sine of speach
 * 15) passes flag protection act.
 * 16) congress has made 7eral attempts to over rule the supreme court.
 * 17) passed the house failed the senate
 * 18) people burn flags every day in sine of protest
 * 19) the Supreme Court affirmed its previous ruling and struck down the federal statute
 * 20) When it was first braght up it only received a couple of votes..