BRENNAN‚ J.‚ Opinion of the Court SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 491 U.S. 397 Texas v. Johnson CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TEXAS No. 88-155 Argued: March 21‚ 1989 --- Decided: June 21‚ 1989 JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. After publicly burning an American flag as a means of political protest‚ Gregory Lee Johnson was convicted of desecrating a flag in violation of Texas law. This case presents the question whether his conviction is consistent
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Throughout Antonin Scalia’s dissent opinion‚ he states that the way the court interprets the Affordable Care Act‚ is different to the way he interprets it. For instance‚ the interpretation of “exchange established by the state‚” and the tax credits under code §36B differs between the court and Scalia. Antonin Scalia argues that the different interpretations of “exchange established by the state” is a big problem because it’s an important part of the Affordable Care Act. The different interpretations
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Why were the Bolsheviks convinced that imposing a state monopoly over the media in the short-term would inevitably lead to media freedom for everyone in the long-term? Introduction The Bolsheviks‚ originally also Bolshevists were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The Bolsheviks were the majority faction in a crucial vote‚ hence their name. They ultimately became the Communist
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He said it so casually‚ as if he never gave it a second thought. “It is no big deal. Everyone was there.” How did it take 19 years for this to come out? “Well were you scared?” How was this not one of his back-when-I-was-younger stories? “Not really.” How could he not want to tell us about how he was at Tiananmen Square in 1989? My dad just happened to be apart of one of the most important moments in Chinese history. Yet‚ he was acting like it was just something he decided to do because he was bored
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Historical Person Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States‚ who served from 1913 to 1921. Wilson was the sitting president during WWI who made a major impact in war negotiations‚ and set the precedent for modern wars in the industrial age going forward. Wilson’s contributions during his presidency were highly impactful and shaped the United States going forward in multiple aspects such as his economic policy‚ social reforms‚ conservation efforts‚ and his leadership during WWI. Born
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essential to power and consent‚ as it is to dissent and social movements. Castells states‚ “the way people think determines the fate of the institutions‚ norms and values on which societies are organized” (p. 5)‚ so once individuals form communication networks where they can exchange information of their shared feelings of discontent and injustice‚ they will begin to think not of the elite’s interests‚ but their own interests‚ and this is when dissent arises and social movements are formed. It is
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Tacit consent can ground obligation when Simmons’s conditions do not hold. For example‚ a landowner can say to a trespasser‚ “Unless you get off my land‚ you must clean my stables.” Here the indicated act of dissent may result in extreme detriment to the trespasser‚ but the crucial point is that the landowner has a right to require the trespasser to leave his land. So by remaining on the landowner’s land‚ the trespasser tacitly consents to clean his stables
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peer makes a comment that the student does not accept to be true. The student will conduct an argument regarding the topic‚ however‚ both students will in the end feel as if they are still accepted. Where I do not agree with Boorstin is that if one dissents‚ he or she will ultimately feel not a part of the majority; thus a part of
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there are three main security challenges in Colombia: drug trafficking‚ FARC dissent groups‚ and the Venezuelan crisis. This does not mean these are the only security issues. Illegal mining and criminal bands‚ among others‚ are big issues but they are all connected to drug
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should only have the power to assert authority over an individual if their behavior is harming others‚ but outside of that it is intruding on individual freedom. On one hand Mill argues that public opinion can be more damaging to individuality and dissent then any laws that could be put in their place. Although he believes that individuals should have the freedom to express their opinions he does not see it fit that the majority opinion in a society or the public opinion be forced upon others. A clear
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