Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Hearings on Measures to Protect the Physical Integrity of the American Flag
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hearings on Measures to Protect the Physical Integrity of the American Flag
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Measures to Protect the American Flag
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional amendments
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Measures to Protect the American Flag
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional amendments
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Desecrating the American Flag
Author: Robert Justin GoldsteinPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815627166
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Desecrating the American Flag is the only comprehensive, edited, and annotated collection of critical documents regarding the controversies swirling around the desecration of the American flag. Should violators of the Stars and Stripes be prosecuted? Or legally protected? This issue reached center stage in American politics throughout the 1990s when Congress debated whether or not to amend the constitution to forbid flag desecration; but this debate has been hotly contested since the Civil War. Robert Justin Goldstein brings together almost 150 key documents spanning more than 100 years. He culls from a variety of sources—Congressional hearings, debates, legal briefs, oral arguments, newspaper articles, and court rulings, for example—and then carefully edits each document to retain key material. Introductory essays place each document within a broader historical, political, and legal context.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
Book Description
Measures to Protect the American Flag
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional amendments
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Constitution and the Flag: The flag salute cases
Author: Michael Kent CurtisPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815312673
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Explicit and Authentic Acts
Author: David E. KyvigPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700622292
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
In time for the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, David Kyvig completed an Afterword to his landmark study of the process of amending the US Constitution. The Afterword discusses the many amendments, such those requiring a balanced federal budget or limiting the terms of members of Congress, that have been proposed since the book was originally published and why they failed of passage. At a time when prominent scholars and other public figures have called for a constitutional convention to write a new constitution, arguing that our current system of governance is unsustainable Kyvig reminds us of the high hurdles the founders created to amending the constitution and how they have served the country well, preventing the amendment process from being used by one faction to serve the passions of the moment. In his farewell address, President Washington reminded his audience that the Constitution, "till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all." He regarded the Constitution as a binding document worthy of devout allegiance, but also believed that it contains a clear and appropriate procedure for its own reform. David Kyvig's illuminating study provides the most complete and insightful history of that amendment process and its fundamental importance for American political life. Over the course of the past two centuries, more than 10,000 amendments have been proposed by the method stipulated in Article V of the Constitution. Amazingly, only 33 have garnered the required two-thirds approval from both houses of Congress, and only 27 were ultimately ratified into law by the states. Despite their small number, those amendments have revolutionized American government while simultaneously legitimizing and preserving its continued existence. Indeed, they have dramatically altered the relationship between state and federal authority, as well as between government and private citizens. Kyvig reexamines the creation and operation of Article V, illuminating the process and substance of each major successful and failed effort to change the formal structure, duties, and limits of the federal government. He analyzes in detail the Founders' intentions; the periods of great amendment activity during the 1790s, 1860s, 1910s, and 1960s; and the considerable consequences of amendment failure involving slavery, alcohol prohibition, child labor, New Deal programs, school prayer, equal rights for women, abortion, balanced budgets, term limits, and flag desecration.