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Under the 1983 Turkish flag law, burning the flag is strictly forbidden, resulting in a prison sentence of three years. Displaying or pulling a torn or discolored flag to flagpole is also illegal. Taking down the flag is a crime, which results in a prison sentence of 18 years. [citation needed]
In extreme cases, such as the burning of the flag, the Supreme Court has ruled, twice, that desecrating the nation’s flag is protected expression by the First Amendment. In the first case, Texas v.
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 Flag of the United States was protected speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as doing so counts as symbolic speech and political speech.
Never display the flag with the union down unless you are signaling distress. When hanging the flag somewhere, do not let it touch the ground. Do not use the U.S. flag for the following purposes:
A history of U.S. laws banning flag burning and other forms of flag desecration, from 1897 to the proposed Flag Desecration Amendment. On Language: Desecration. Column in the New York Times (July 31, 2005) by William Safire on the use of the word desecration in the proposed amendment. Cracking the Flag-Burning Amendment; A Brief History of Flag ...
Trump calls for American flag burning to be punishable by 1 year in jail ... Flag burning is not illegal in the U.S. because it is protected by the First Amendment as a form of symbolic speech ...
“Identifying with evil terrorist organizations like Hamas, burning the American flag, or forcibly removing the American flag and replacing it with another, is disgraceful,”…
The flag should never touch anything physically beneath it. [9] An urban myth claimed that if the flag touched the ground, it had to be destroyed under the Flag Code; however, it has been affirmed by the American Legion and state governments that this is not the case. [10] [11] The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding or drapery.