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Author : Robert Justin Goldstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000310719
First published in 1995, Saving Old Glory provides a detailed account of the origins and development of the American flag desecration controversy.
Author : Robert Justin Goldstein
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815627165
Desecrating the American Flag is the only comprehensive, edited, and annotated collection of critical documents regarding the controversies swirling around the desecration of the American flag. Should violators of the Stars and Stripes be prosecuted? Or legally protected? This issue reached center stage in American politics throughout the 1990s when Congress debated whether or not to amend the constitution to forbid flag desecration; but this debate has been hotly contested since the Civil War. Robert Justin Goldstein brings together almost 150 key documents spanning more than 100 years. He culls from a variety of sources—Congressional hearings, debates, legal briefs, oral arguments, newspaper articles, and court rulings, for example—and then carefully edits each document to retain key material. Introductory essays place each document within a broader historical, political, and legal context.
Author : John R. Vile
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781851094288
"This second edition has been expanded by more than a third and is the only reference work that tells the whole story of constitutional amendments: the rigorous ratification process, the significance of the amendments that made it, and the notable and sometimes preposterous topics of the thousands that didn't." --Book Jacket.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Constitutional amendments
ISBN : MINN:31951D02324978L
Author : Robert Justin Goldstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050301475
When Gregory Lee Johnson burned an American flag as part of a political protest, he was convicted for flag desecration under Texas law. But the Supreme Court, by a contentious 5 to margin, overturned that conviction, claiming that Johnson's action constituted symbolic -- and thus protected -- speech. Heated debate continues to swirl around that controversial decision, both hailed as a victory for free speech advocates and reviled as an abomination that erodes the patriotic foundations of American democracy. Such passionate yet contradictory views are at the heart of this landmark case. Book jacket.
Author : John R. Vile
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798216045847
At a time when the U.S. flag is both a source of both pride and controversy, this volume provides the first encyclopedic A-to-Z treatment of the U.S. flag in American history, culture, and law. This title is a comprehensive resource for understanding all aspects of the American flag and its relationship to the American people. The encyclopedia provides a thorough historical examination of key developments in the flag's design as well as laws and court decisions related to the flag and the First Amendment. In relation to the flag's history, it also discusses evolving public attitudes about its importance as a national symbol. The encyclopedia contains illuminating scholarly essays on presentations of the flag in American politics, the military, and popular culture including art, music, and journalism. Additionally, these essays address important rules of flag etiquette and modern controversies related to them, from flag-burning to refusing to stand during the playing of the U.S. National Anthem.
Author : Robert Corn-Revere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Constitutional amendments
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063706670
Author : Marc Leepson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429906470
The thirteen-stripe, fifty-star flag is as familiar an American icon as any that has existed in the nation's history. Yet the history of the flag, especially its origins, is cloaked in myth and misinformation. Flag: An American Biography rectifies that situation by presenting a lively, comprehensive, illuminating look at the history of the American flag from its beginnings to today. Journalist and historian Marc Leepson uncovers scores of little-known, fascinating facts as he traces the evolution of the American flag from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. Flag sifts through the historical evidence to---among many other things---uncover the truth behind the Betsy Ross myth and to discover the true designer of the Stars and Stripes. It details the many colorful and influential Americans who shaped the history of the flag. "Flag," as the novelist Nelson DeMille says in his preface, "is not a book with an agenda or a subjective point of view. It is an objective history of the American flag, well researched, well presented, easy to read and understand, and very informative and entertaining." "Our love for the flag may be incomprehensible to others, but at least we now have a comprehensive guide to its unfolding." ---The Wall Street Journal "The fascination of history is in its details, and the author of Flag: An American Biography knows how to find them and turn them into compelling reading.... This book brings out the irony, humor, myth, and behind-the-scenes happenings that make our flag's 228-year history so fascinating." ---The Saturday Evening Post "Timely and insightful." ---The Dallas Morning News
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000033109220
Author : John M. Ellis
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781641772150
A series of near-riots on campuses aimed at silencing guest speakers has exposed the fact that our universities are no longer devoted to the free exchange of ideas in pursuit of truth. But this hostility to free speech is only a symptom of a deeper problem, writes John Ellis. Having watched the deterioration of academia up close for the past fifty years, Ellis locates the core of the problem in a change in the composition of the faculty during this time, from mildly left-leaning to almost exclusively leftist. He explains how astonishing historical luck led to the success of a plan first devised by a small group of activists to use college campuses to promote radical politics, and why laws and regulations designed to prevent the politicizing of higher education proved insufficient. Ellis shows that political motivation is always destructive of higher learning. Even science and technology departments are not immune. The corruption of universities by radical politics also does wider damage: to primary and secondary education, to race relations, to preparation for the workplace, and to the political and social fabric of the nation. Commonly suggested remedies—new free-speech rules, or enforced right-of-center appointments—will fail because they don’t touch the core problem, a controlling faculty majority of political activists with no real interest in scholarship. This book proposes more drastic and effective reform measures. The first step is for Americans to recognize that vast sums of public money intended for education are being diverted to a political agenda, and to demand that this fraud be stopped.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045452633
Author : Thomas Hylland Eriksen,Richard Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134066964
Although the symbolic and political importance of flags has often been mentioned by scholars of nationalism, there are few in-depth studies of the significance of flags for national identities. This multi-disciplinary collection offers case studies and comparisons of flag history, uses and controversies. This book brings together a dozen scholars, from varying national and disciplinary backgrounds, to offers a cluster of close readings of flags in their social contexts, mostly contemporary, but also historical. Case studies from Denmark, England, Northern Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States explore ways in which flags are contested, stir up powerful emotions, can be commercialised in some contexts but not in others, serve as quasi-religious symbols, and as physical boundary markers; how the same flag can be solemn and formal in one setting, but stand for domestic bliss and informal cultural intimacy in another.
Author : Dimitrios Kyritsis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199672257
Should courts be able to scrutinise primary legislation for its compatibility with human rights? Focusing on the value of the separation of powers, Dimitrios Kyritsis offers an innovative discussion of the role of constitutional courts and the scope of judicial review, and a normative theory of the constitutional review of legislative action.
Author : Steve Erickson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735212039
A LA TIMES' BEST BOOK OF 2017 (FICTION) "A beautiful, moving, strange examination of apocalypse and rebirth.” - Neil Gaiman "Erickson has mobilized so much of what feels pressing and urgent about the fractured state of the country in a way that feels fresh and not entirely hopeless, if only because the exercise of art in opposition to complacent thought can never be hopeless." - New York Times Book Review A chronicle of a weird road trip, a provocative work of alternative history, and a dazzling discography of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, encompassing artists from Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday to Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, SHADOWBAHN is a richly allusive meditation on the meaning of American identity and of America itself. "Jaw-dropping," says Jonathan Lethem (Granta).
Author : Michael Welch (Ph. D.)
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 020236612X
Responses to flag burning as a particular form of street protest tend to polarize into two camps: one holding the view that action of this sort is constitutionally protected protest; the other, that it is subversive and criminal activity. In this well-researched and richly documented volume, Welch examines the collision of these ideologies, and shows the relevance of sociological concepts to a deeper understanding of such forms of protest. In exploring social control of political protest in the United States, this volume embarks on an in-depth examination of flag desecration and efforts to criminalize that particular form of dissent. It seeks to examine the sociological process facilitating the criminalization of protest by attending to moral enterprises, civil religion, authoritarian aesthetics, and the ironic nature of social control. Flag burning is a potent symbolic gesture conveying sharp criticism of the state. Many American believe that flag desecration emerged initially during the Vietnam War era, but the history of this caustic form of protest can be traced to the period leading up to the Civil War. The act of torching Old Glory differs qualitatively from other forms of defiance. With this distinction in mind, attempts to penalize and deter flag desecration transcend the utilitarian function of regulating public protest. Despite popular claims that American society is built on genuine consensus, the flag-burning controversy brings to light the contentious nature of U.S. democracy and its ambivalence toward free expression. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is often viewed as one of the more unpopular additions to the Bill of Rights. One constitutional commentator underscores this point by noting that the First Amendment gives citizens the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. Flag Burning is a well-written, informative volume suitable for courses in deviance, social problems, social movements, mass communication, criminology, and political science, as well as in sociology of law and legal studies.