The Court has also said that free speech is limited. You cannot say “Fire!” in a crowded theater and cause a panic. We cannot say words of obscenities, words that incite violence and words that are a threat to individuals or national security. There is a limit to free speech, when that speech constitutes a “clear and present danger” to the United States. Texas v. Johnson (1989), is another Supreme Court Case involving the First Amendment. Johnson was enraged by the government and soaked a U.S. flag with kerosene and burned it outside the Republican National Convention in Dallas. He was arrested under a Texas law prohibiting the desecration of Texas and U.S. flags. Texas law placed an unconstitutional limit on “freedom of expression”, saying “nothing in our precedents suggests that a state may foster its own view of the flag by prohibiting expressive conduct relating to
The Court has also said that free speech is limited. You cannot say “Fire!” in a crowded theater and cause a panic. We cannot say words of obscenities, words that incite violence and words that are a threat to individuals or national security. There is a limit to free speech, when that speech constitutes a “clear and present danger” to the United States. Texas v. Johnson (1989), is another Supreme Court Case involving the First Amendment. Johnson was enraged by the government and soaked a U.S. flag with kerosene and burned it outside the Republican National Convention in Dallas. He was arrested under a Texas law prohibiting the desecration of Texas and U.S. flags. Texas law placed an unconstitutional limit on “freedom of expression”, saying “nothing in our precedents suggests that a state may foster its own view of the flag by prohibiting expressive conduct relating to