Flag Burning and Free Speech The Case of Texas vs. Johnson

Name: Flag Burning and Free Speech The Case of Texas vs. Johnson
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ISBN: 9780700610549

ISBN-10: 0700610545

ISBN-13: 9780700610549

Edition: 2000

Authors: Robert J. Goldstein

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In a free society where it often seems nothing is sacred, many feel that one thing at least should be: that despite constitutional guarantees of free speech, it should be illegal to desecrate the American flag. For most Americans, no symbol is more charged with emotion, and incidents of its abuse have led many to declare that freedom of expression has its limits. When Gregory Lee Johnson burned a flag as part of a political protest, he was convicted for flag desecration under Texas law, but the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed the conviction on First Amendment grounds and the Supreme Court confirmed that physically damaging the flag constituted symbolic-and protected-speech. Robert…

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List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 11/21/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Editors' Preface


Preface



The Early History of the American Flag Desecration Controversy



Flag Desecration Laws and Prosecutions, 1897-1980



The Texas Flag Burning Trials of Gregory Lee Johnson, 1984-1988



The Supreme Court and Texas v. Johnson, Fall 1988-Spring 1989



The Post-Johnson Firestorm, Summer 1989



The Congressional Debate on Responding to Johnson, July-October 1989



Testing the Flag Protection Act in the Courts, October 1989-May 1990



The Eichman Ruling and Its Aftermath, June 1990



From Eichman to the New Millennium, June 1990-Spring 2000


Chronology


Bibliographical Essay


Index