Burning the flag : the great 1989-1990 American flag desecration controversy / Robert Justin Goldstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldstein, Robert Justin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Flags--Desecration--United States.

Flags.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio ; London, England : The Kent State University Press, 1996.

Summary:

In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that dissidents had a constitutional right under the First Amendment to burn the flag. During the Bush Administration, Congress passed the Flag Protection Act (FPA), and so doing reflected the broad spectrum of opinion that saw the flag as a sacred symbol of American freedoms. Robert Justin Goldsteins Burning the Flag thoughtfully draws on the disciplines of law, political science and history to analyze the controversy in all its dimensions. London Review of BooksGoldstein has written a wonderfully comprehensive and highly readable history and analysis of the flag desecration debate in the US.Choice

Contents:

Intro

Halftitle Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations Used in Text

1. The Pre-1984 Origins of the American Flag Desecration Controversy

2. The Texas Trials of Gregory Lee Johnson, 1984-1988

3. The Flag Controversy Moves to Center Stage, August 1988-June 1989

4. The Immediate Post-Johnson Flag Firestorm

5. The 1989 Congressional Flag Desecration Debate: To Overturn Johnson by Law or by Constitutional Amendment

6. The 1989 Decline and Fall of the Constitutional Amendment and the Passage of the Flag Protection Act

7. The Flag Protection Act and the Federal District Courts, October 1989-February 1990

8. The Supreme Court and Flag Burning, Round Two, March-June 1990

9. Flag Burning: The Sequel, June 1990

Epilogue and Afterthoughts: The Flag Desecration Controversy in the Post-Eichman Era, Mid-1990 to Mid-1995

Addendum: The Revived Struggle over the Flag Desecration Amendment in 1995

Appendix

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781612777603

1612777600

OCLC:

868286112