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Flag Burning Ban Amendment Tries Senate Again

Monday June 27, 2005
Shortly after its 4th of July recess, the U.S. Senate will once again consider a constitutional amendment allowing Congress to ban flag burning. In the House -- where the amendment passed 286-130 -- debate, as it always has, centered on whether or not a flag burning ban would violate the First Amendment's protection of free speech. Even opponents of the flag burning amendment agree it has the best chance ever of passing in the Senate. Read more...

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