Constitution Burning
Save The Flag. Burn The Constitution.
In a survey of 100,000 highschool students, University of Connecticut researchers reveal that 75% believed that flag burning was illegal. The truth, as the other 25% know, is that flag burning, like it or not, is allowed under the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The first amendment provides for a wide range of freedoms of expression (freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, freedom of the press, freedom of religion).
When the students were provided with the full text of the amendment, more than a third thought it went too far in the rights it protected.
Only about half the students surveyed thought that newspapers should be allowed to publish stories without governmental approval.
While many Iraqis are risking their lives for the first taste of freedom, and while U.S. servicemen are dying in the fight to help them get it, it is disturbing to know that many young Americans seem all too willing to give up the freedom others have fought and died for.
In a survey of 100,000 highschool students, University of Connecticut researchers reveal that 75% believed that flag burning was illegal. The truth, as the other 25% know, is that flag burning, like it or not, is allowed under the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The first amendment provides for a wide range of freedoms of expression (freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, freedom of the press, freedom of religion).
When the students were provided with the full text of the amendment, more than a third thought it went too far in the rights it protected.
Only about half the students surveyed thought that newspapers should be allowed to publish stories without governmental approval.
While many Iraqis are risking their lives for the first taste of freedom, and while U.S. servicemen are dying in the fight to help them get it, it is disturbing to know that many young Americans seem all too willing to give up the freedom others have fought and died for.
posted by Steve Trumbull | 2/01/2005
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