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Since 1995, the Flag Desecration Amendment has consistently mustered sufficient votes to pass in the House of Representatives, but not in the Senate.
Harris is also in favor of welfare reform, school vouchers, the Patriot Act, the Flag Desecration Amendment, the Federal Marriage Amendment, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
On June 27, 2006, Chafee was one of only three Republicans to vote against the proposed Flag Desecration Amendment.
Although he is considered by many as an ardent conservative, he has distanced himself from the majority in his party by supporting earmarks and opposing the Flag Desecration Amendment.
When Republicans retook control of Congress for the 104th session, the Flag Desecration Amendment was first proposed, which would grant the federal government the authority to proscribe flag burning.
He voted for the Flag Desecration Amendment, the Iraq War Resolution, banning gay adoption, banning gay marriage and banning affirmative action.
The Flag Desecration Amendment, often referred to as the Flag-burning Amendment, is a controversial proposed constitutional amendment to the United States Constitution that would allow the United States Congress to statutorily prohibit expression of political views through the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.
On 22 June 2005, a Flag Desecration Amendment was passed by the House with the needed two-thirds majority.
In 2006, following a flag-burning incident during the 2005 Cronulla riots and a burnt flag display by a Melbourne artist, Bishop introduced the Protection of the Australian National Flag ( Desecration of the Flag ) Bill 2006.
In 2003, together with her colleague the Member for Canning Don Randall MP, Trish Draper introduced a Private Members Bill, Protection of Australian Flags ( Desecration of the Flag ) Bill 2003 A Bill for an Act to amend the Flags Act 1953.
Johnston was a firm advocate of the Flag Desecration Amendment while opposing abortion and most gun control measures.
On other issues he is more liberal: he often votes with his party on separation of church and states issues, and has consistently voted against the Flag Desecration Amendment.
Cunningham co-sponsored, along with Democrat John Murtha, the so-called " Flag Desecration Amendment ", which would add the following sentence to the Constitution of the United States
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As a Congressman, Russell also had a strong reputation for his opposition to flag burning, co-sponsoring the Flag Burning Amendment every time it came before Congress, and strongly considered speaking out when a flag was apparently burnt in the White House.
The first three, ' The Locomotives on Highways Act 1861 ', ' The Locomotive Act 1865 ' ( or ' Red Flag Act ') and the ' Highways and Locomotives ( Amendment ) Act 1878'all contained very restrictive measures for road vehicles.
The Citizens Flag Alliance is an American organization advocating in favor of the Flag Burning Amendment project.
The Court had to consider whether the 1919 California Red Flag Law was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment.
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