USA HISTORY

THE 1970S 1969 1979

SUPREME COURT CASE ROE V WADE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This ruling invalidated prohibitions on desecrating the American flag in force in 48 of the 50 states. Justice WilliamBrennan wrote for a five-justice majority in holding that the defendant’s act of flag burning was protected speech under the first amendment.
A
Regents of California v. Bakke,
B
Roe v. Wade, 1973
C
Tinker v. Des Moines School District, 1969
D
Texas v. Johnson, 1991
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The majority of the Court, according to Justice William Brennan, agreed with Johnson and held that flag burning constitutes a form of “symbolic speech” that is protected by the First Amendment.

Detailed explanation-2: -Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that burning the American flag was protected speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as doing so counts as symbolic speech and political speech.

Detailed explanation-3: -This activity is based on the landmark Supreme Court case Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), which deals with First Amendment protection of flag burning as symbolic speech.

Detailed explanation-4: -Desecration of the flag of the United States; penalties 713. “(a) Whoever knowingly casts contempt upon any flag of the United States by publicly mutilating, defacing, defiling, burning, or trampling upon it shall be fined not more than $1, 000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

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