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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Strana 7
... asked to assume the risk inher- ent in crafting a first - time exception to the Bill of Rights in the absence of any meaningful evidence that the flag is in danger of losing its symbolic value . More- over , the proposed amendment ...
... asked to assume the risk inher- ent in crafting a first - time exception to the Bill of Rights in the absence of any meaningful evidence that the flag is in danger of losing its symbolic value . More- over , the proposed amendment ...
Strana 10
... asked in the Senate again to amend the Constitution of the United States - to change the funda- mental law that binds our Nation together . And I would hope and 16 Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution Authorizing the Congress and ...
... asked in the Senate again to amend the Constitution of the United States - to change the funda- mental law that binds our Nation together . And I would hope and 16 Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution Authorizing the Congress and ...
Strana 11
... asked to alter the inalienable rights of Ameri- cans , now and for future generations . And we are handling a most precious trust and one that is taken seriously by both those for and against this amendment . We should approach this ...
... asked to alter the inalienable rights of Ameri- cans , now and for future generations . And we are handling a most precious trust and one that is taken seriously by both those for and against this amendment . We should approach this ...
Strana 12
... asked to say that it is OK for the U. S. Government to suppress at least some political expression be- cause we find it offensive . And when governments like that of Cuba or China decide that certain forms of political expression are ...
... asked to say that it is OK for the U. S. Government to suppress at least some political expression be- cause we find it offensive . And when governments like that of Cuba or China decide that certain forms of political expression are ...
Strana 14
... asked to amend the Constitution of the United States - to change the fundamental law that binds this nation together . I hope and expect that we all appreciate that we are undertaking one of the gravest of our leg- islative ...
... asked to amend the Constitution of the United States - to change the fundamental law that binds this nation together . I hope and expect that we all appreciate that we are undertaking one of the gravest of our leg- islative ...
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Strana 85 - 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 9 - 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 59 - 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 138 - 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 52 - 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 15 - 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 118 - 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 127 - States. 1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in...
Strana 52 - And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.
Strana 85 - ... 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. If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.