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What amendment allows the burning of the US flag?
It is protected under the First Amendment under the principle of freedom of speech. However, there have been numerous votes for Anti-Flag Burning amendments in the House and Senate in recent years.
What are the different kinds of speech that the Supreme Court has identified?
The Supreme Court has identified three types of speech: fully protected speech, which includes political or artistic expression and is protected by the First Amendment; partially protected speech, which includes commercial speech and is subject to certain restrictions; and unprotected speech, such as obscenity, defamation, and speech that incites violence, which is not protected by the First Amendment.
What type of speech is protected under the first amendment?
The first amendment prohibits congress from passing a law regulating speech. The prohibition is on congress, not on anyone else. Thus, your speech is not protected. If you use your speech to incite a riot, to lead a rebellion, or to slander someone, you can suffer the consequences. Still, your act must be illegal. Your slander must be a lie. You do not commit slander if what you say is true. If you yell fire and the building is not burning and you cause a stampede, you have committed a crime. If the building is burning, you have not committed a crime. Untruthful speech is not protected.
What type of speech is picketing?
Picketing is a form of speech that involves holding signs or banners to express a message, typically in a protest or demonstration. It is a form of symbolic speech that is protected under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Which of these is a type of speech that is unprotected under the First Amendment?
Sedition
If I say the President and Mayor are crooks is this speech protected by the first amendment?
Yes, this type of political speech is protected by the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The protection ends when you enter the area of perjury or you make damaging statements that you know are false. If you go into court to testify and state under oath (falsely) that the President did something, that is perjury. If you go to the newspaper and falsely claim that you saw the mayor take a payoff from a developer, that is libel. Speech that is just opinion or is hyperbole (Obama is too thin to be President, Bush is the worst President in history, etc.) is protected.
What is the meaning of symbolic speech?
Symbolic speech refers to nonverbal forms of expression that convey a message or opinion, such as wearing a t-shirt with a political slogan or burning the flag as a form of protest. This type of speech is protected under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Which amendment allows people to protest against the government?
The First Amendment relates to your right of free speech, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. However, this is not a free pass. While you've the right to post something online about how you don't like the Department of Motor Vehicles, if you criticize one of them while at the DMV, you may well be asked (made) to leave. Likewise, discussions on the nature of liberty will not be allowed at airport security points. Or a lot of other places. You should regard your "right" to criticize a government official as on a par with your "right" to bear arms. You, by a literal reading of the Constitution, have a "right" to do either, with no restrictions. But you'd do well to exercise MUCH prudence.
Why is the first amendment important to our type of government?
its the freedom of speech press court religion and rallies. without these our nation wouldn't be as great as it is
What form of speech is considered less protected?
The most protected and highly regarded form of speech is core political speech. This is a type of speech that is purely expressive in its nature and has a high importance to a functional republic.
What is dangerous speech?
Dangerous speech is defined by Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) as speech that incites "imminent lawless action." With this definitions, speech that directs a specific individual or group to commit a specific violent crime falls under this statute and is not protected by the First Amendment.
Is seditious speech protected by the constitution?
Seditious speech is the most hated type of speech. Yet the US Constitution does provide for the protection of seditious speech if it is not found to harmful or disruptive to the rights and freedoms of others.
