Word: flags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flag even more important than Congress? Imagine that protesters burned the entire U.S. Congress in effigy. Would that be O.K.? What if each tiny effigy were wearing a teensy-weensy lapel flag...
Should states be permitted to electrocute a condemned prisoner with a flag tattooed on his chest? Should burning the flag be a more serious crime than burning a church? More serious than burning a cross...
Should the nation permit postage stamps bearing pictures of the flag to be defaced by inky cancellations...
Commercial exploitation of the flag is commonplace in print, on television and around business premises. Since such use (almost by definition) debases the flag, should it be outlawed? What should be done about garments featuring % a flaglike motif? When a flag is cut and sewed into a shirt, is it still a flag...
Does political exploitation debase the flag? Should it be prohibited...