Everyone here is a citizen of the United States of America and when that flag is burned it is an attack on the visible symbol of our nation. B. The action of burning the flag is one that should be made illegal. III. [Establish Credibility] Before working on this speech I did not know many of the details and history of flag burning.
It gained a great deal of criticism from the Democratic-Republicans. The two factions took a strong defense to whether the Sedition Act was justifiable by the Constitution or not. Federalist Congressman Allen defended the Sedition Act by condemning Americans for their acts of libel and “most shameless falsehoods against the representatives of the people.” Allen stated that “freedom of the press and opinions was never understood to give the right of publishing falsehoods and slanders, nor of exciting sedition, insurrection, and slaughter…” (Doc. 6). A Democratic-Republican supporter George Hay of Philadelphia argued that any kind of legislation against a protected freedom, in this case freedom of the press and opinion, is “extremely forbidden by the constitution” (Doc.
The case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court where they said that prior restraint, except in rare cases, is unconstitutional for violating the First Amendment. However, it cited when prior restraint can be used, including that, “…primary requirements of decency may be enforced against obscene publications.” Minnesota lawmakers were later able to shut down Neal’s paper for
I believe that the unpatriotic aspects of the war is the main reason the book was banned. Americans see World War II as a moral war against senseless manslaughter that we won. To show how we also participated in senseless manslaughter ourselves would be hard to explain to
The British blockade kept all trades away from the Germans, including food (Ghost Liners 124).Yet, when the Germans retaliate, the Americans hate them for it. The Germans received blame for a crime that followed the rules of war blockades. America shames the Germans for killing civilians warned of the possible danger. Finally, the Lusitania allowed for the British to win in a win-win situation that their government
3. The qualifier is in paragraph 4. I think what the writer wrote as the qualifier limited his argument because the only thing he can discuss is burning the American flag is distasteful. I feel he could have done some pros and cons of burning the flags, besides just talking about freedom of speech. He could have talk about the American soldiers and what the American flag mean to them.
Proposition 8 was a 2008 California ballot measure that outlawed same-sex marriage. It undid a decision by the state Supreme Court from earlier that year that found an earlier ban to be illegal. Since its passage, Proposition 8 has been the subject of court actions and has continued to be one of the central battlefields in the fight over same-sex marriage in the United States. In August 2011, a federal district judge found that Proposition 8 — passed by California voters by a margin of 52 percent to 48 percent — violated the equal protection rights of two same-sex couples that brought the suit. The proposition placed a specific prohibition in the State Constitution against marriage between two people of the same sex.
1) Debs insist, “If the Espionage law finally stands, then the constitution of the United States is dead. If that law is not the negation of every fundamental principle established by the constitution, then certainly I am unable to read or to understand the English language” (VOF, 120). When another law usually conflicts with the Constitution that law is void. But in this case when the Espionage Act was in conflict it was not void. So Debs is saying that now basically the constitution is dead because the Espionage Act is being enforced over the Constitution.
The word censorship comes from the word censor. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines censor as “to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable <censor the news>; also: to suppress or delete as objectionable <censor out indecent passages>”(censor). The First Amendment states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances”(First). Since the beginning of films there has been a person or group of people that have tried to impose their views, values, morals, and ideas of decency. I disagree with those people and feel that what people see should fall in the hands of the film viewer and not the government, film industry, or activist groups.
Its importance it literally unparalleled in our governing system and it is just a shame that in the worst case they are not even looking to reform the second amendment, rather destroy it and take all the guns. If the defense of the Constitution is our number one agenda then we as a nation should stop trying to downplay its everlasting