Flag Desecration Amendment to the Constitution: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, on H.J. Res. 79 ... May 24, 1995 |
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Page 43 - The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Page 17 - NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, acting under...
Page 62 - Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, I am grateful for the opportunity to testify...
Page 19 - States is displayed from a staff projecting horizontally or at an angle from the window sill, balcony, or front of a building, the union of the flag should be placed at the peak of the staff unless the flag is at half staff.
Page 21 - March 1, 1954, as amended, that until interment the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff on all buildings, grounds and naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions.
Page 18 - America, when it is displayed with another flag against a wall from crossed staffs, should be on the right, the flag's own right, and its staff should be in front of the staff of the other flag.
Page 3 - English language. 1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in...
Page 18 - That the flag, when carried In a procession with another flag or flags, should be either on the marching right; that is, the flag's own right, or, if there is a line of other flags, in front of the center of that Une.
Page 23 - The flag should never be used as drapery of any sort whatsoever, never festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free.
Page 26 - Joint resolution to codify and emphasize existing rules and customs pertaining to the display and use of the flag of the United States of America...