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Flag Protection Act Summary

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Summary of the case
In 1989 Congress passed the Flag Protection Act, which made it clear that any individual who “knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defiles, burns, maintains on the floor or the ground, or tramples upon” an American Flag can be prosecuted (get a fine or risk jail for year). The Act was passed after Supreme Court had made a law, which said that all flag destruction was forbidden. The law violated the 1st Amendment about free expression. Congress found a solution by passing the Flag Protection Act. In 1990 Eichman and others set fire to the American Flag several places, both on the stairs of Capitol and in Seattle. The United States charged them for setting fire to the flags on purpose. The flag burnings had all happened
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