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

Luckey, John

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

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

RP-ID  :  95-709
RP-ID  :  95-709_2005Jan03

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report gives a brief history of the flag protection issue, from the enactment of the Flag Protection Act in 1968 through current consideration of a constitutional amendment. A second part briefly summarizes 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.