Class in Session: Flag Burning 101
...States, during the late-1800s and early-1900s, started to institute laws pertaining to the treatment of the American flag in response to a growing, and apparently unpatriotic commercial use of the symbol. In Halter v. Nebraska, the US Supreme Court granted a state’s right to pass laws dictating the treatment of the American Flag if its passage derived from the need to protect the public. Subsequent developments involving the treatment of the flag, however, only further bolstered an individual’s right to free speech: in West Virginia Board of Education vs. Barnette, the Court set down a precedent that allowed children to reject saluting the flag because free speech is infringed upon in a scenario where it falls into the category of compulsory speech....
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