Flag Protection Amendment: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, on H.J. Res. 4, May 7, 2003U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003 - 47 páginas |
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... argument , as do the majority of Americans . The Flag Pro- tection Amendment is consistent with the First Amendment while reflecting society's interest in maintaining the flag as a national symbol by protecting it from acts of physical ...
... argument , as do the majority of Americans . The Flag Pro- tection Amendment is consistent with the First Amendment while reflecting society's interest in maintaining the flag as a national symbol by protecting it from acts of physical ...
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... argument against the flag amendment by so many of my fellow Democrats - attitudes that would have seemed odd some years ago , when I worked for Senator Robert Kennedy , but that now seem to be taken for granted . I. ARGUMENTS ABOUT ...
... argument against the flag amendment by so many of my fellow Democrats - attitudes that would have seemed odd some years ago , when I worked for Senator Robert Kennedy , but that now seem to be taken for granted . I. ARGUMENTS ABOUT ...
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... Argument . The first trivialization of the amendment's effects is the repeated claim that there is simply no problem for it to address . There are , it is said , few incidents of flag desecration nowadays ; and those few involve ...
... Argument . The first trivialization of the amendment's effects is the repeated claim that there is simply no problem for it to address . There are , it is said , few incidents of flag desecration nowadays ; and those few involve ...
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... argument , however , is for the Con- stitution and for constitutional democracy - which it purports to defend . Article V of the Constitution specifically provides for amendment . The use of the amendment process to correct mistaken ...
... argument , however , is for the Con- stitution and for constitutional democracy - which it purports to defend . Article V of the Constitution specifically provides for amendment . The use of the amendment process to correct mistaken ...
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... argument is based in a strange disdain for it in practice . I am , no doubt , preaching to the choir . The House of Representatives voted 371- 43 for a flag protection law . Most Representatives , therefore , rejected the " censor- ship ...
... argument is based in a strange disdain for it in practice . I am , no doubt , preaching to the choir . The House of Representatives voted 371- 43 for a flag protection law . Most Representatives , therefore , rejected the " censor- ship ...
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