An Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Authorizing Congress to Prohibit the Physical Desecration of the Flag of the United States: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, on S.J. Res. 14 ... April 20 and April 28, 1999, Volumen4U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000 - 172 páginas |
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... Chairman MANUS COONEY , Chief Counsel and Staff Director BRUCE A. COHEN , Minority Chief Counsel CONTENTS STATEMENTS OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS Hatch , Hon . Orrin. STROM THURMOND , South Carolina CHARLES E. GRASSLEY , Iowa ARLEN SPECTER ...
... Chairman MANUS COONEY , Chief Counsel and Staff Director BRUCE A. COHEN , Minority Chief Counsel CONTENTS STATEMENTS OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS Hatch , Hon . Orrin. STROM THURMOND , South Carolina CHARLES E. GRASSLEY , Iowa ARLEN SPECTER ...
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... chairman , board of direc- tors , Citizens Flag Alliance , and medal of honor recipient , Sumner , WA ; Gary E. May , associate professor of social work , University of Southern Indiana , Evansville , IN ; Maribeth Seely , fifth grade ...
... chairman , board of direc- tors , Citizens Flag Alliance , and medal of honor recipient , Sumner , WA ; Gary E. May , associate professor of social work , University of Southern Indiana , Evansville , IN ; Maribeth Seely , fifth grade ...
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... ( chairman of the committee ) presiding . Also present : Senators Ashcroft , Smith , Leahy , Kennedy , and Feingold . OPENING STATEMENT OF HON . ORRIN G. HATCH , A U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF UTAH The CHAIRMAN . Good morning . This ...
... ( chairman of the committee ) presiding . Also present : Senators Ashcroft , Smith , Leahy , Kennedy , and Feingold . OPENING STATEMENT OF HON . ORRIN G. HATCH , A U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF UTAH The CHAIRMAN . Good morning . This ...
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... chairman of the Judiciary Committee , played a lead role in this effort , and he and Senator Leahy supported the Act as a generally content- neutral and constitutional means of protecting the American flag . Several scholars opined that ...
... chairman of the Judiciary Committee , played a lead role in this effort , and he and Senator Leahy supported the Act as a generally content- neutral and constitutional means of protecting the American flag . Several scholars opined that ...
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... Chairman : I am very pleased that we are considering S.J. Res . 14 , the Con- stitutional amendment to protect the flag of the United States . I commend you , Mr. Chairman , for the leadership you have provided in our ongoing effort to ...
... Chairman : I am very pleased that we are considering S.J. Res . 14 , the Con- stitutional amendment to protect the flag of the United States . I commend you , Mr. Chairman , for the leadership you have provided in our ongoing effort to ...
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Página 86 - To courageous, self-reliant men, with confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning applied through the processes of popular government, no danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present, unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is opportunity for full discussion.
Página 85 - If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us.
Página 145 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 10 - The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.
Página 60 - And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing : and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
Página 144 - Accordingly a function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger.
Página 137 - But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
Página 117 - Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights ; they will be an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the Legislative or Executive ; they will be naturally led to resist every encroachment upon rights expressly stipulated for in the Constitution by the declaration of rights.
Página 142 - These later decisions have fashioned the principle that the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.* As we said in Noto v.
Página 126 - States. 1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in...