The Supreme Court

question 63

Multiple Choice

The Supreme Court

• A)has ruled that even forms of symbolic speech considered to be dangerous to the public are protected.
• B)ruled during the Vietnam war that the burning of draft registration cards was a protected form of symbolic speech.
• C)has reduced its protections of symbolic speech dramatically,and recently has ruled against flag burning as a form of protected symbolic speech.
• D)has protected symbolic speech much more substantially than it has protected verbal speech.
• E)has generally protected symbolic speech,though less substantially than it has protected verbal speech.

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