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Majority Of People Living Things
1,071 wordsWhat can be more beautiful than love? More delightful to the ears than a bird chirping its melodious song of happiness on a Sunday morning? More heart melting than a single rose given to you by the one you adore? To be able to live and to see such beauty in life is a wonderful blessing. However, not many of us are bestowed with this gift. The majority of people are too busy or too consumed with the superficial ities of life that they fail to take part in the splendor that is right in front of th...
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Webster Collegiate Dictionary U S Constitution
1,082 wordsBurning an American flag has often been a source for debate and it has been proposed to make the practice illegal through an amendment. In order for this Flag Amendment to be considered, according to the U. S. Constitution, it must be proposed by two-thirds vote of each house of Congress or by the national convention called by Congress at the request of two-thirds of the state. To become part of the Constitution, the amendment must be ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states o...
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United States Of America Flag Burning
1,397 words... merican public stand? Various polls indicate that 70 %- 80 % are in favor of the proposed amendment (Citizen's Flag Alliance). However, when informed as to the first Amendment implications of such an amendment, poll show that American opinions are more swayed and split their opinions at nearly 50 % (Fullwood). The main argument for the Flag Desecration Amendment is that the American flag is not just another piece of cloth (Citizen's Flag Alliance). The flag is proclaimed by supporters to be ...
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United States Of America Flag Of The United States
927 wordsFlag desecration is not American. People who burn the American flag lack respect for themselves, America, and the many people who have died to preserve American freedom. The people who desecrate the American flag have no right to call themselves Americans. They are unpatriotic, two faced, cowards, and worse of all un-American (communist). To be patriotic a person must love and defend his own country against all foreign and domestic threats. These unpatriotic people are two faced. They live in Am...
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Museum Of Art Freedom Of Expression
1,173 wordsWhat is art? Can it be defined in any single painting, or sculpture? Is it even something that can be seen, or does it have to be experienced? The term "art" is so vague that it can be applied to almost anything, really. Mostly, however, art should be that which frees our imagination. It connects our conscious with our subconscious, putting into a visual form what we feel and think. It allows us to explore our inner self and fill that urge to understand our minds and our universe. Art helps us t...
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Founding Fathers First Amendment
507 wordsI am writing to you to express my views on the issue of the Flag Desecration Amendment. Let me begin by discharging from the outset that I am not writing to defend those who would desecrate the flag of the United States. In fact, my contempt for such action is equal to that of any member of the free speech movement. The flag is not simply the symbol of America; more deeply, it is the symbol of the ideals on which this nation rests. Those who would desecrate the flag are thus guilty of desecratin...
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Supreme Court Cases U S Supreme Court
2,039 wordsThe first amendment of the US Constitution states that? congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press? ? . Ever since the beginning of the Supreme Court, cases have come up time and time again that challenge this amendment, or require the justices to interpret this amendment. Looking back at all the cases heard, it is obvious that the US Supreme Court have changed their interpretat...
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United States Supreme Court United States V
1,299 wordsFlag Burning can be and usually is a very controversial issue. Many people are offended by the thought of destroying this countrys symbol of liberty and freedom. During a political protest during the 1984 Republican Convention, Gregory Lee Johnson was arrested for burning an American flag. Years later in 1989, Johnson got the decision overturned by the United States Supreme Court. In the same year, the state of Texas passed the Flag Protection Act, which prohibited any form of desecration agains...
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Flag Burning Supreme Court
505 wordsFlag burning is absolutely not a valid form of political expression under the first amendment. Though the Supreme Court, in the case of Gregory Johnson, ruled that it was in fact constitutional to allow people to burn the flag, the evidence against this ruling is overwhelming. First, the first amendment does provide protection to demonstrators wishing to voice their political opinions vocally and symbolically, the amendment does not allow for the desecration of sacred objects such as flags, ceme...
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Freedom Of Expression Bill Of Rights
655 wordsDesecrating the Flag Throughout history, Americans have fought hard to gain independence and the freedoms that come with it. However, some choose to test the limitations of those freedoms. For some time, Americans have shown their disgust of the American government by burning flags, and even cutting them up to use as clothing. Although mocking the American government and the flag is disrespectful, revoking the right to do so would be a violation of freedom of expression, which is guaranteed by t...
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