Description - Flag Burning by Michael Welch
This book explores how flag burning penetrates the collective consciousness and arouses latent social anxiety. Although the Supreme Court has held that flag burning is political expression, and thus is shielded by the First Amendment, flag burning has been perceived as a symbolic threat to American society, a threat culminating in a disaster mentality. Subsequent legislative attempts to ban flag desecration have also failed to meet the constitutional test in the courts, but the issue has not been laid to rest. The contradictions of persistent efforts to ban unpopular political expression in a democracy that protects free speech abound in the key elements of social constructionism.
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