History flag burning quiz

Judicial Review

Allows the court to determine the constitutionality of laws

Name 3 ways of flag disposal:

Burying a flag,Flag shredding, giving it to an organization (vets of forgen wars)

What are the 4 responses of the US Gov't to 9/11?

Bush doctrine War arak War afgan Patriot act

House of Representatives failed attempts to pass the 28th Amendment making flag burning illegal

Congress wouldn't make a law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives.

Federal Flag Protection Act:

Federal District courts in both cases dismiss charges, calling the Flag Protection Act unconstitutional.

What is covering the flag burning?

Freedom of speech

Freedom of speech and connecting it to flag burning:

Freedom of speech is a way you can express and show your oppinions. This means that if you would like to protest and share your thoughts to the community you could use flag buring as an expression. That is why it is a stretch of freedom of speech.

Texas vs. Gregory Lee Johnson 1984

Gregory Lee Johnson burned an American flag outside of the convention center where the 1984 Republican National Convention was being held in Dallas, Texas. ... A Texas court tried and convicted Johnson. He appealed, arguing that his actions were "symbolic speech" protected by the First Amendment.

Can you burn the flag to this day?

No

What is the only crime that the Patriot Act is concerned with?

Terriosim

Supreme Court ruling on Texas case 1989, US vs Eichman 1990

Texas v. Johnson, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 21, 1989, that the burning of the U.S. flag was a constitutionally protected form of speech under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment.

Checks and Balances

The branches of gov. Can limit each other's power.

federalism

The division of power between the states and the federal, or national, government.

Separation of powers

The division of the gov. Power into executive, legislative, and judicial branches.

Who is the most offended by the flag burning?

The veterans who have fought for this country and have served time in the war.

Has the Patriot Act been weakened over the 17 years since 9/11 in 2001? YES NO

Yes, this is because less people are being attacked as well as derectly effected by it.

loose construction

having power that are not directly stated in the constitution but are suggested or implied.

U.S. vs. Eichman (1990)

is a United States Supreme Court case that invalidated a federal law against flag desecration as violating of free speech under the First Amendment. The 28th amendment would have

Strict Construction

the view that the gov. Has only the powers that are specifically spelled out in the constitution.

Impeached

to charge a public official with a crime for the purpose of removing them from office

Name two specific parts of the Patriot Act that stretched the 4th Amendment?

wire wroving and sneak and peak