Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--A House committee yesterday approved a flag protection bill that was pushed by Democrats but dismissed by Republicans as useless for overcoming the Supreme Court ruling permitting flag burning.
House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) added, "The people who pose as the most vigilant supporters of flag protection...seem more interested in adding political graffiti to the Constitution than in protecting the physical integrity of the American flag."
"The purpose of this statute is to provide appropriate protection for the American flag without getting into the first retreat in American history [from] the Bill of Rights," said Rep. Don Edwards (D-Calif.), chair of the committee's constitutional rights subcommittee.
He said the test was even more severe than the April 1986 explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that killed 31 people, cost millions of dollars to clean up and sparked a nationwide environmental protection movement.
Many ethicists have problems with the Louisiana law, which was designed with the laudable goal of protecting the embryo from experimental misuse or casual destruction. For example, does the statute's definition of the zygote as a juridical person mean that it has inheritance rights? Many secular experts argue that...