Flag Protection: A Brief History and Summary of Recent Supreme Court Decisions and Proposed Constitutional Amendment Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Flag Protection: A Brief History and Summary of Recent Supreme Court Decisions and Proposed Constitutional Amendment

Creator

  • Author: Luckey, John R.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Legislative Attorney

Publisher

  • Name: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
    Place of Publication: Washington D.C.

Date

  • Creation: 2001-07-18

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: This report is divided into two parts. The first gives a brief history of the flag protection issue, from the enactment of the Flag Protection Act in 1968 through current consideration of a constitutional amendment. The second part briefly summarizes the two decisions of the United States Supreme Court, Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman, that struck down the state and federal flag protection statutes as applied in the context punishing expressive conduct.
  • Physical Description: 11 Pages.

Subject

  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Commemorations
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Constitutional amendments
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Supreme Court decisions
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Flags
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Constitution
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Law

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States

Collection

  • Name: Congressional Research Service Reports
    Code: CRSR

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • CRS Report Number: 95-709A
  • Accession or Local Control No: 95-709A_2001Jul18
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metacrs1461
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