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Effects Of Flag Desecration

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A public flag burning in protest of a recently enacted law is protected by the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause. The desecration of flag burning is idiomatic to the 21st century. Flag burning became an issue in the U.S. after the Civil War and since that time has had a drastic history. "Congress passed the Federal Flag Desecration Law in 1968" (Head, 2017). The law banned all exhibition of abhorrence against the flag. However, the ban did not address the other issues dealt with by the state flag desecration laws. Gregory Lee Johnson convicted for burning a flag in protest against President Ronald Reagan's policies in Dallas, Texas in 1984 under Texas' flag desecration statute. (Hall, 2014) Congress opposed Johnson decision by passing the

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