Flag Burning & Free Speech

by Robert Justin Goldstein

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700610545
• ISBN13: 9780700610549
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"