Flag Protection: A Brief History and Summary of Recent Supreme Court Decisions and Proposed Constitutional Amendment

Luckey, John R.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Commemorations;    Constitutional amendments;    Supreme Court decisions;    Flags;    Constitution;   

RP-ID  :  95-709A
RP-ID  :  95-709A_2003Jun04

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report is divided into two parts. The first gives a brief history of the flagprotection issue, from the enactment of the Flag Protection Act in 1968 throughcurrent consideration of a constitutional amendment. The second part brieflysummarizes the two decisions of the United States Supreme Court, Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman, that struck down the state and federal flag protection statutes as applied in the context punishing expressive conduct.