Flag-burning isn’t First Amendment speech (since the Founders were like every other English-speaking human on the planets and meant “speech” when they wrote “speech”), but everyone knows that the motivation behind the amendment is to squelch a certain ugly type of symbolism, and that a flag-burning amendment could serve as precedent for banning all sorts of nonverbal “desecration.”
Flag-burning isn’t First Amendment speech (since the Founders were like every other English-speaking human on the planets and meant “speech” when they wrote “speech”), but everyone knows that the motivation behind the amendment is to squelch a certain ugly type of symbolism, and that a flag-burning amendment could serve as precedent for banning all sorts of nonverbal “desecration.”