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, Svazek 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000 - Počet stran: 172 |
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... thing , and only one thing , has stood be- tween the flag and its routine desecration : the fact that the flag , as a potent symbol of all that is best about our Country , is justly cherished and revered by nearly all Americans ...
... thing , and only one thing , has stood be- tween the flag and its routine desecration : the fact that the flag , as a potent symbol of all that is best about our Country , is justly cherished and revered by nearly all Americans ...
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... thing itself.16 IV . Americans are free today to display the flag respectfully , to ignore it entirely , or to use it as an expression of protest or reproach . By overwhelming numbers , Ameri- cans have chosen the first option , and ...
... thing itself.16 IV . Americans are free today to display the flag respectfully , to ignore it entirely , or to use it as an expression of protest or reproach . By overwhelming numbers , Ameri- cans have chosen the first option , and ...
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... things that a Member of the Senate or the House could do would be to vote either to go to war or to amend the Constitu- tion . We are being asked to alter the inalienable rights of Ameri- cans , now and for future generations . And we ...
... things that a Member of the Senate or the House could do would be to vote either to go to war or to amend the Constitu- tion . We are being asked to alter the inalienable rights of Ameri- cans , now and for future generations . And we ...
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... things , but we are not doing the actual things . We are doing the rhetoric and not the reality . I saw this in Vermont where we had to fight to keep adequate funding for the only veterans hospital in the State . We changed our ...
... things , but we are not doing the actual things . We are doing the rhetoric and not the reality . I saw this in Vermont where we had to fight to keep adequate funding for the only veterans hospital in the State . We changed our ...
Strana 14
... things work in the United States and that free expression is the hallmark of a free society . You cannot force people to think alike by suppressing independent thought . You cannot force people to be patriotic by denying them the right ...
... things work in the United States and that free expression is the hallmark of a free society . You cannot force people to think alike by suppressing independent thought . You cannot force people to be patriotic by denying them the right ...
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Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 126 - States. 1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in...