 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1974 - 82 páginas
...every informal use of the flag. The statutory language under which Goguen was charged, however, fails to draw reasonably clear lines between the kinds of...nonceremonial treatment that are criminal and those that are not. Due process requires that all "be informed as to what the State commands or forbids . . . ," Lanzetta... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 2000 - 186 páginas
...American flag would suffer from the same defect as the statute at issue in Smith: it would "fail I] to draw reasonably clear lines between the kinds of...nonceremonial treatment that are criminal and those that are not."7 The term "flag of the United States" is similarly "unbounded,"8 and by itself provides no guidance... | |
 | James A. Curry, Richard B. Riley, Richard M. Battistoni - 2003 - 660 páginas
...of the flag; Court held that statute was unconstitutionally vague because it failed to distinguish between "... the kinds of non-ceremonial treatment . . . that are criminal and those that are not." Six-member majority held that First Amendment protected student who had displayed American flag... | |
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... varying attitudes and tastes for displaying something as ubiquitous as the United States flag or representations of it, it could hardly be the purpose of the Massachusetts legislature to make criminal every informal use of the flag. The statutory... 