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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... Justice , Washington , DC ALPHABETICAL LIST AND MATERIALS SUBMITTED Baca , Edward D .: Testimony Brady , Patrick H .: Prepared statement 324 34 86 88 90 95 97 103 112 54 Testimony 41 42 Chafee , Hon . John H .: Testimony 90 ...
... Justice , Washington , DC ALPHABETICAL LIST AND MATERIALS SUBMITTED Baca , Edward D .: Testimony Brady , Patrick H .: Prepared statement 324 34 86 88 90 95 97 103 112 54 Testimony 41 42 Chafee , Hon . John H .: Testimony 90 ...
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... Justice Rehnquist , writing in dissent , were espe- cially eloquent . The Chief Justice wrote : Far from being a case of " one picture being worth a thousand words , " flag burning is the equivalent of an inarticulate grunt or roar that ...
... Justice Rehnquist , writing in dissent , were espe- cially eloquent . The Chief Justice wrote : Far from being a case of " one picture being worth a thousand words , " flag burning is the equivalent of an inarticulate grunt or roar that ...
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... Justice today . They informed us of their desire to provide testimony at today's hearing on Friday afternoon . I have been in- formed that , despite our effort to accommodate them by permitting them to testify first , they have pulled ...
... Justice today . They informed us of their desire to provide testimony at today's hearing on Friday afternoon . I have been in- formed that , despite our effort to accommodate them by permitting them to testify first , they have pulled ...
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... Justice Louis Brandeis observed , " those who won our independence eschewed silence coerced by law - the argument of force in its worst form . " Our faith in free speech is grounded ultimately in a confidence that the truth will prevail ...
... Justice Louis Brandeis observed , " those who won our independence eschewed silence coerced by law - the argument of force in its worst form . " Our faith in free speech is grounded ultimately in a confidence that the truth will prevail ...
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... justice for one of those former servicemen , and I am honored if my intervention played a part in that matter for the Ramirez family . If we fail to meet the concrete needs of American veterans and try to push them aside with symbolic ...
... justice for one of those former servicemen , and I am honored if my intervention played a part in that matter for the Ramirez family . If we fail to meet the concrete needs of American veterans and try to push them aside with symbolic ...
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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...