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...experts, many of whom believe that the flag-veneration laws?including a federal measure passed two years ago?are in violation of the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech. The Supreme Court has established that symbolic political acts ?such as displaying a red flag or wearing black armbands???come under First Amendment protection. Yet it has sidestepped the issue of whether laws specifically forbidding abuse of the American flag are valid. Says Burt Neuborne of the American Civil Liberties Union: "Our position is that any person attempting to express a political idea is protected by the First Amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Who Owns the Stars and Stripes? | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

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